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
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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
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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.
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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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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.
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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
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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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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.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
That's entirely a pragmatic argument. Nothing to do with free speech.
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No. It's the reason I don't make myself available to all people at all times. My defence of free speech doesn't require this.
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