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Why do people like Wil blame Twitter for Alex Jones & Donald Trump? The only people being bothered are the people that want to be bothered. You can 1. Block peo

Why do people like Wil blame Twitter for Alex Jones & Donald Trump? The only people being bothered are the people that want to be bothered. You can 1. Block people you don't want to see 2. Ignore it. Twitter is not forcing you to view pages you don't like. There are entire other extremely large groups of people that enjoy this stuff and are completely harmless.

afuchs 8y ago
What stops someone you blocked from asking their followers to harass you? Should it be possible to force someone to spend several hours a day blocking people?
latexr 8y ago
A thought exercise: Let’s say a popular HN user with a large following (let’s call them “Dex”) starts a campaign on HN to harass you. They start posting lies all over the site, claiming you hit puppies, spit in the coffee of blond people, and talk at the theatre. Dex has rabid fans that take his word over their own research, and those users start to hate you. You start getting hate messages, and they eventually dox you. > The only people being bothered are the people that want to be bothered. You don’t want to be bothered by Dex’s actions. You may not even have a clue who he is. Yet you are being bothered by his actions and those of his fans. > You can 1. Block people you don't want to see You can’t block people in real life, when they start sending packages of excrement to your house or start swatting you. > 2. Ignore it. Pretty hard to ignore AFK harassment that is targeting you and your family in your own home. > Twitter is not forcing you to view pages you don't like. By now it should be clear it’s not about being offended by words you don’t want to see. > Why do people like Wil blame Twitter for Alex Jones & Donald Trump? In our parallel, let’s say you and a large portion of HN know Dex’s actions are spiteful and based on lies with the sole objective of harming you, and you can prove it. Yet HN does nothing. Instead, it keeps making excuses as to why they won’t silence Dex, thus allowing the attacks on your person to continue. Do you see the problem?
- tomcooks 8y ago
  Easy solution: don't be a celebrity. Incredible, I know.
  - bjoli 8y ago
    Well... Didn't the followers of Alex Jones harrass the parents of children that died in the Tony Hook school shooting? Not being a celebrity didn't work for them.
- pathseeker 8y ago
  For this analogy to work, doesn't Trump or Alex have to call out Wil directly?

afuchs 8y ago

What stops someone you blocked from asking their followers to harass you? Should it be possible to force someone to spend several hours a day blocking people?

latexr 8y ago

A thought exercise: Let’s say a popular HN user with a large following (let’s call them “Dex”) starts a campaign on HN to harass you. They start posting lies all over the site, claiming you hit puppies, spit in the coffee of blond people, and talk at the theatre. Dex has rabid fans that take his word over their own research, and those users start to hate you. You start getting hate messages, and they eventually dox you. > The only people being bothered are the people that want to be bothered. You don’t want to be bothered by Dex’s actions. You may not even have a clue who he is. Yet you are being bothered by his actions and those of his fans. > You can 1. Block people you don't want to see You can’t block people in real life, when they start sending packages of excrement to your house or start swatting you. > 2. Ignore it. Pretty hard to ignore AFK harassment that is targeting you and your family in your own home. > Twitter is not forcing you to view pages you don't like. By now it should be clear it’s not about being offended by words you don’t want to see. > Why do people like Wil blame Twitter for Alex Jones & Donald Trump? In our parallel, let’s say you and a large portion of HN know Dex’s actions are spiteful and based on lies with the sole objective of harming you, and you can prove it. Yet HN does nothing. Instead, it keeps making excuses as to why they won’t silence Dex, thus allowing the attacks on your person to continue. Do you see the problem?

tomcooks 8y ago
Easy solution: don't be a celebrity. Incredible, I know.
- bjoli 8y ago
  Well... Didn't the followers of Alex Jones harrass the parents of children that died in the Tony Hook school shooting? Not being a celebrity didn't work for them.
pathseeker 8y ago
For this analogy to work, doesn't Trump or Alex have to call out Wil directly?