Elon Musk has made it easier to obscure his mess.
Elon Musk has a history of floating edgy ideas for X and not implementing them or, at the least, slow-walking them. Nearly a year ago, Musk said hethe ability to block users, a development that would’ve rendered the site formerly known as Twitter into even more of a hellscape. He hasn’t actually done it, and if he ever does, there’s no guarantee the change will stick.
But Musk’s latest plan to axe one of the site’s most famous features has been set in motion: Soon, likes of posts will be anonymous to all but the person who sent the post and the person who pressed the like button. Musk and his engineers say that the update is a matter of encouraging free expression. “Important to allow people to like posts without getting attacked for doing so!”the wrong behavior.
That rationale is, obviously, silly. Musk portrays concealing the identity of tweet-likers as a way to let people adhere to their convictions. It really isn’t, though; it instead allows people to indicate approval of a post having to personally stand up for anything. It comes across as a move by Musk to cater to thin-skinned users who can’t handle social blowback for indicating a belief. Never mind that if they’re not comfortable airing that belief, they could simply not press the like button.
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