After introducing a slew of changes since his Twitter – now X – takeover last year, Elon Musk is now training his guns at the platform’s essential ‘block’ feature. Responding to a user on X, the billionaire said on Friday (18 August): “Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs” (direct messages). He added that the blocking feature “makes no sense”. His remarks were a reply to an account named Tesla Owners Silicon Valley that had asked, “Is there ever a reason to block vs mute someone?” Musk’s signalling to kill off the block feature has...