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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 3 Nov 2017
      Replying to @n8r0n74 @davebromage

      Anything that impedes the free exchange of ideas I will block for. But I support people blocking for any reason to make their Twitter theirs

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    2. Nate in Seattle‏ @n8r0n74 3 Nov 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @davebromage

      Blocking is itself an impediment to free xchange of ideas, not a solution for impediments. I agree, it's trying to make a public space yours

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 3 Nov 2017
      Replying to @n8r0n74 @davebromage

      It can be if you're blocking sets of ideas rather than people who can't have discussions of them. I don't but that's OK too.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 3 Nov 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @n8r0n74 @davebromage

      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 3 Nov 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @n8r0n74 @davebromage

      That is OK & actually probably necessary once you get past a certain number of followers & want to be sure of seeing the worthwhile tweets

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. Nate in Seattle‏ @n8r0n74 3 Nov 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 3 Nov 2017
      Replying to @n8r0n74

      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

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Nate in Seattle‏ @n8r0n74 3 Nov 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      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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    9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 3 Nov 2017
      Replying to @n8r0n74

      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.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 3 Nov 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @n8r0n74

      Even in unambiguously public spaces like pubs, I want to be able to choose who I talk to and listen to.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 3 Nov 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @n8r0n74

      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.

      6:20 PM - 3 Nov 2017
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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 3 Nov 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @n8r0n74

          Scratch that. I mean they still get to speak to whoever wants to hear them and hear whoever wants to be heard by them.

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        3. Nate in Seattle‏ @n8r0n74 4 Nov 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I'm glad you caught that error, b/c previous tweet was clearly false. This 1 still untrue b/c you've kept these ppl from your audience, too.

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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 4 Nov 2017
          Replying to @n8r0n74

          No, I haven't. They can still hear them but not in my thread. In same way, I restrict people who can talk in my house.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        5. Nate in Seattle‏ @n8r0n74 4 Nov 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          You are not in your house!

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        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 4 Nov 2017
          Replying to @n8r0n74

          I'm on my Twitter account. I get to decide who hears me. End of.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        7. Nate in Seattle‏ @n8r0n74 4 Nov 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          You're performing some kind of equivocation. The word "my" applies b/c it's the Twitter account associated w/ u. No property ownership comes

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        8. Nate in Seattle‏ @n8r0n74 4 Nov 2017
          Replying to @n8r0n74 @HPluckrose

          Just as you speaking audibly in a public park is still *your* voice, but doesn't give u the right to expel others b/c your voice started it.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 4 Nov 2017
          Replying to @n8r0n74

          But Twitter does give me the right to choose who I talk to & I take advantage of that. Limiting my contacts does not deny them free speech.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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