You are assuming there is a sane, sensible number of people who just happen to disagree, while one has unlimited time. Neither holds.
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Replying to @zeynep @NAChristakis
Freedom of assembly is part of freedom of speech. You'd never be able to hold a thought or speak with whom you wanted, if people constantly+
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Replying to @zeynep @NAChristakis
.., 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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Replying to @zeynep @NAChristakis
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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Replying to @zeynep @NAChristakis
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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Replying to @zeynep @NAChristakis
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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Replying to @zeynep
But but then why not mute? Why block strangers you've never interacted with, in advance, allowing others to decide for you who can hear you?
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Replying to @NAChristakis
Two reasons. Block is a social signal. Raising the bar/friction for them to ping you. They can always log out and see you.
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Second, they are often siccing their followers on you, to harass you. Adds friction to that process. Though I do wish we had better tools.
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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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Replying to @zeynep @NAChristakis
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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Replying to @zeynep @NAChristakis
Block: they cannot quote tweet you. Quote tweet is very often is used to start cascades of harassment for example.
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