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X to remove the block feature

by Sama Mousa

Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, is set to remove the block feature, said owner Elon Musk said on Friday.

The block feature allows a user to stop certain accounts from contacting them, seeing their posts, or following them.

“Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs,” Musk said in a post on X.

He also said that X will keep the mute function, which can help a user control what he or she sees but, unlike blocking, does not alert the other account to the action.

The new restrictions on the block feature might cause conflict to X with guidelines incorporated by Apple’s App Store and Alphabet’s Google Play.

Apple said that apps with user-generated content must have the ability to block abusive users.

Google Play Store also said that apps must provide an in-app system for blocking user-generated content and users.

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