Nope. A conversation held in a public space isn't yours. A private space is different, and Twitter provides protected accounts, DMs for that
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Yes, you build your own Twitter by choosing who to follow and who to allow to follow you, who to hear & who to allow to hear you.
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That is OK & actually probably necessary once you get past a certain number of followers & want to be sure of seeing the worthwhile tweets
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I actually agree that blocking may be a useful tactic for improving ur feed's signal-to-noise ratio. Just not that it's pro free speech.
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Then we mean different things by FS. I don't include every person having access to every other person. I mean being able to express ideas
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I do include every person having access when it's a public space. We probably disagree that "your Twitter" is a public space.
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If by that you mean everybody having access to everybody, then, yes. I wouldn't be here, couldn't be here if I couldn't block people.
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Even in unambiguously public spaces like pubs, I want to be able to choose who I talk to and listen to.
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This doesn't impede on the essence of free speech to me at all coz everyone still gets to speak to who they want & hear who they want.
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How can you know in the future what a given person will be able to discuss? If person X can't learn, what are we doing here at all?
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Maybe they'll change in the future but I am no obligation to wait for them to. If they pester me pointlessly too often, I cut off from them
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I will not try to ban them from speaking generally & they are not denied free speech because I choose not to engage with them.
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