.., and on purpose, barged in on your conversation & yelled at you in great numbers. People have a right to their attention—day is 24 hours.
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I think traditional liberal conception of free speech is speaker focused—let people speak—and misses the right to hear, and right to focus.
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In a world where billions can speak at you, this can be a form of censorship—they can overwhelm your attention so you cannot hear or think.
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Are people supposed to let hundreds of people just constantly ping them, while they have no right to direct their attention as they wish?
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Blocking someone does not limit their right to speak, just limits their ability to occupy *your* attention at that moment. Day is limited.
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I limit my blocking, and I do seek and & to listen to disagreement. But on my terms, when I chose. Otherwise, I'd be unable to use Twitter.
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Block/mute controls your own notification tab. Do ppl have right to barge in on all your conversations? Even if there are thousands of them?
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Overwhelming one's attention is now a deliberate form of censorship by gov'ts. They try to overwhelm the conversation. Detailed in my book.
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All that said, I *do* have concerns about pre-emptive block lists with no transparency or recourse, and that is Twitter's failing.
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People are trying to control their attention (which they have a right to) with limited and very crude tools, but they are often doing this +
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..as a means to try to remain in the public sphere while malevolent insensitive or even gov't paid trolls try to chase them from it.
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And I think our theories of free speech have not adapted to a world in which too information glut/mass ping is used as a form of censorship.
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All this is in the "Governments Strike Back" chapter of my book, which has a creative commons copy here:https://www.twitterandteargas.org/
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