this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
498 points (87.5% liked)

Technology

60116 readers
4203 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
498
In His Latest Threat to Public Safety, Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Remove Option to Block Users (gizmodo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by HLMenckenFan to c/technology
68 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] sab 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Overexaggerating headlines online? I thought that trend was as old as news sites itself.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? It isn't "public" safety, because you have to be like 4 layers deep to be in danger.

  1. A Twitter user
  2. Identifiable
  3. Post
  4. In a blocked conversation

"Public" refers to people just "walking around", uninvolved I'm whatever is going on. So to relate to this it'd be like, "uninvolved Twitter readers being followed home"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As old as the press, really.