Instagram makes its bully-blocking feature available to everyone

Instagram is now giving all its users access to its newest anti-bullying feature.

The app will now let everyone who uses its app selectively choose to "restrict" users who are engaging in bullying behavior.

The feature, which was first introduced earlier this summer, is meant to provide a middle ground between outright blocking — which the company says can cause bullies to escalate bad behavior  — and doing nothing. When you use the new restrict feature, no one else will be able to see comments from the account you've restricted. They'll still be visible to the original commenter, but they won't appear for anyone else. Read more...

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