{"id":170014,"date":"2023-08-19T03:23:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T08:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/if-elon-musk-removes-the-block-feature-from-x-it-wouldnt-be-the-first-time-the-billionaire-skirted-app-store-rules"},"modified":"2023-08-19T03:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T08:23:59","slug":"if-elon-musk-removes-the-block-feature-from-x-it-wouldnt-be-the-first-time-the-billionaire-skirted-app-store-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/if-elon-musk-removes-the-block-feature-from-x-it-wouldnt-be-the-first-time-the-billionaire-skirted-app-store-rules","title":{"rendered":"If Elon Musk removes the block feature from X it wouldn\u2019t be the first time the billionaire skirted App Store rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-elon-musk-removes-the-block-feature-from-x-it-wouldnt-be-the-first-time-the-billionaire-skirted-app-store-rules2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk on Friday announced plans to remove the block feature on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-x-everything-app-twitter-details-2022-10\" rel=\"\">X, the microblogging social media platform formerly known as Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a move <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MonicaLewinsky\/status\/1692697894929785246\" rel=\" nofollow\">many<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Esqueer_\/status\/1692585595086704950\" rel=\" nofollow\">users<\/a> are <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abughazalehkat\/status\/1692584583424811365\" rel=\" nofollow\">decrying<\/a> as a step toward openly allowing harassment on the platform, and if he goes through with it, the change would appear to violate the rules of both the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.<\/p>\n<p>And it wouldn\u2019t be the first time the billionaire has gotten what he wanted despite existing rules on the App Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk on Friday announced plans to remove the block feature on X, the microblogging social media platform formerly known as Twitter. It\u2019s a move many users are decrying as a step toward openly allowing harassment on the platform, and if he goes through with it, the change would appear to violate the rules of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}