Re:Twitter’s Problem Isn’t the Like Button
by baddox on Friday November 02, 2018 @03:57AM
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But blocking isn’t based directly on viewpoints. It’s based directly on users choosing to block other users. It might be unreasonable to allow a user to specify an entire viewpoint to block from their social circle, but it’s not unreasonable to allow them to block individual users for any reason they choose. I don’t have to let any random stranger into my real-life social circles, and that doesn’t mean I’m choosing to live in a real-life echo chamber.
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Re:Twitter’s Problem Isn’t the Like Button
by XCabbage on Friday November 02, 2018 @07:34AM
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But Twitter isn't a private space to interact with your "social circle"; it's the public square, where political debates take place in full view of the world. The best real life analogue I can think of to replying with a dissenting view on Twitter is protesting outside a political speaker's talk, which is something we very much allow.