Infuriating point missage. Best ignored.
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I hadn't considered this until recently. Prominent lunatics who block half of Twitter say something lunatic, screencap and mock. What's the harm? But I'm starting to think we need to regain not only respect for freedom of speech but for freedom to decide who you talk/listen to.
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Even Steve Shives?
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Yes, I think so. I will no longer screencap and discuss someone who has blocked me because I do not like it when people do it to me. There were some radfems doing it for a while. I want to respect boundaries generally. I might join someone else's conversation of a screenshot tho.
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Does being automatically blocked by a block-bot really count?
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Yes, I think so. People chose to use them.
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I agree with all of this. Twitter is still, at bottom, a conversation. Everyone has the right to walk away without being stalked. I’ve been known to block, when I feel the person in question is particularly toxic. It’s the right of free association.
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doesnt this stifle free discussion and speech though? i thought you were big on that whole thing?
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The idea behind free discussion and debate is that people who want to talk to each other about things should be able to. If someone doesn't want to talk to someone else, they shouldn't have to.
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and they dont but i should still be able to criticise their ideas even without them responding or ever having to see my posts because theyve blocked me. What's wrong with that?
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They have taken steps not to communicate their ideas to you. You have no ethical right to listen in on people who have not included you in their conversation. You have no right of access to other people's ideas unless communicated on a public forum which is open to you.
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twitter is a public forum....
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It;s semi-public. It includes various options for making account private and being selective about who can see your tweets.
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and if you go private? or post it in a dm group? fair enough. i have no right to force access to that. but if you just post it on twitter into the public sphere then even if you've blocked me i should be allowed to criticise it - as long as im not abusive of course.
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We'll just have to disagree on that.
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(i’ll keep my screenshots up, though, as receipts. the internet doesnt forget)
