I've. Ive now learned a lot about preemptive blocking of strangers so others cannot hear oneself speak. @zeynep I'd be curious your thoughts
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I wrote about the social signal aspect before: you're signaling a sanction and making it harder for them to gang up. https://medium.com/message/whats-wrong-with-twitters-latest-experiment-with-broadcasting-favorites-a7c0c81896f7 …
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Respectfully, you are thinking of all this as an individual-to-individual issue; rather, people are targeted categorically, to shut them up.
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Ok but why block in *advance* based on someone *else's* list. Preventing others form hearing what *you* are saying. It feels mob-like to me.
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You are missing the fact that the *mob* is attacking individuals to shut them off and chase them off. They are defending themselves.
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