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all the typical bootlickers (tesla owners, fridman, MKBHD) literally just do PR for Musk and his shortsighted decisions constantly… is there some kind of coordination or do they really just like him that much
The value of his ventures depends on him as a brand, and there are lots of people invested in his ventures, so it benefits a wide range of interested groups and individuals to carry water for him. It's a mixture of his own PR, PR from related ventures and investors, grifters who want to appeal to his audience of rubes, and the rubes, themselves. There's probably a limited amount of coordination at the formal PR level, but I'd assume a lot of it is emergent behavior.
Pay attention to history. The only reason we have civilization is because humanity loves simping for "powerful/strong/ambitious" men. They literally can't help themselves. It was either the Muskrat or someone else.
It's a shame because for better or worse, it was a feature developed due to the worst behavior online. Like, people got treated really badly, enough that Twitter made it in the first place, and Musk is like "nah, no institutional memory, no reason to have it"
But some behavior is bad enough where it was warranted to actually block a user. Like, if someone in your replies is saying all kinds of awful things, like, blocking them means that they cannot interact at all. Meaning, someone who follows you wouldn't see that abusive behavior, because they couldn't do it.
Just muting someone means that while you don't see the abusive behavior, your followers will unless every single one of them also mutes that user.
It's a bad decision to eliminate blocking and then try and argue that actually muting is what people want.
I'm trying to manipulate the site to promote fascism, but people keep blocking it. Curious. Looking into it...
can't block if there's no block feature. Then people shall accept fascism for sure! 
I heard you can't block what 
promotes 
and all will be forced to endure epicly bad takes 
and 
fascism too.
So isn't going to block or ban his critics?
so dunking is back on the menu right?- We're getting rid of the block feature. To implement a rigorously enforced "disengage" policy, right? To implement a "disengage" policy, right?
