@jens @freemo of course from any practical perspective, "the ability to block abusive users from the service" seems to be impaired when the CEO makes you unblock people who posted CSAM.

@Eutropia @jens

Huh? not sure i follow what you mean... how does your inability to block personally impair the fact that users can be blocked from the service?

@freemo @jens I'm being facetious, in reference to the story linked below.

If you have the technical capacity to block abusive users, but your owner won't let you, then do you *really* have the "ability" to block them? OK, the serious answer is "yes," but it's a pretty significant caveat and I hope Apple is paying attention.

https://wapo.st/3OFhNef

@Eutropia

I think you misunderstood something...

> If you have the technical capacity to block abusive users, but your owner won't let you, then do you *really* have the "ability"

Thats not what is going on here... The apple policy states that the owners of the platform (musk and twitter employees) must have the ability to block abusive users from the service. It makes no requirement that individual users need to be able to block.

So no you neither have the technical capacity nor will the owner let you... but neither of those has any relevance to the apple policy as it is not talking about that.

@jens

@freemo @jens In my post, "you" refers to Twitter as a company. Twitter itself does not have the ability to block abusive owners, because its owner won't let it.

Or that's the joke, but it's really not worth working this hard to analyze.

@Eutropia

Ohhhhhhh, ok, sorry. Yea I see what you mean now :)

@jens