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Phones are not a pub-sub system like Twitter is. Once you block someone, there is no way they can contact you directly. You have to go and read their Tweets in
by parennoob 11y ago
Phones are not a pub-sub system like Twitter is. Once you block someone, there is no way they can contact you directly. You have to go and read their Tweets in some manner to see what they are saying.
Stephanie Guthrie was appears to have been literally trying to sue this guy because he called her mean names (for which she blocked him), and was using a hashtag that she liked to search on. Apparently, Tweets from people you have blocked are still visible if they are using a hashtag that you search on. This could possibly be a technical limitation – it's not like Google gives you an option (apart from SafeSearch) to filter sites you may be offended by. Come to think of it, this is literally like trying to sue someone for putting up a site indexed by Google that may come up for search terms you use.
So I would say the case for being similar to repeated phone calls is invalid.
- avita1 11y ago> Once you block someone, there is no way they can contact you directly. Most carriers allow you to blacklist phone numbers (although that very well may not have been the case when those laws were written).
- iokanuon 11y agoAnd all of them allow you to set your number to private, so that the receiver doesn't see it.
- im2w1l 11y agoWell consider this example (idk how similar it is to the case in the article) @abc, 11:10 Yay football #superbowl #football @xyz, 11:11 abc sucks #superbowl #football @abc, 13:20 I just had potato soup for breakfast #soup #breakfast #goodmorning @xyz, 13:21 Wow I really don't like abc #soup #breakfast #goodmorning Imagine months of that
- zwetan 11y agoso ? not only you can block but you can also mute block and mute someone on twitter and whatever the hashtag they use, or if they reply to you, even trough other persons you will not see a single line of theirs
- danso 11y agoCould you mute back in 2012, when this case started?
- dogma1138 11y agoDoesn't matter you are using Twitter you don't like the content stop using it, 99% of the Internet is offensive to some one that doesn't mean it's harassment this is like sueing Google for presenting you results which you might not like.