I had not heard of the twitter block list - thanks for the info. My thought on the blocker bots things in this thought process is that a few portals could spri

I had not heard of the twitter block list - thanks for the info. My thought on the blocker bots things in this thought process is that a few portals could spring up with the various bots listed and open discussions / comments about them will be available - and it should be a one-click to clone and rename / change.. so that people are encouraged to create new ones. Having open source blocking and discussion with one click clone and change will hopefully create lots of transparency, and give end users for options for finer grained control - The open discussions should have shape the various bots - something I have not figured is a process to auto-take and another bots updates and remove all instances of x and y terms.. and make Paulines-Copy-bot auto update when Pete's now block lists are added. I too would prefer not to block people and servers and instead just hide by topics as a first line of defense. Like mashable on fbook - I'd like to keep them in my feed, and block the stupid things they post about trump.. if I don't get a way to do this, I'll have to lose mashable completely. I think the discussions on the bots would be educational for people as well. I myself have read articles that discuss some of the edge cases of bans for things like the ISPs in the UK and the health sites and such.. but I don't think most people see that kind of news.. and some may benefit from seeing discussion about other things that are unintentionally, or intentionally blocked.. and make decisions on the info and controversy instead of taking the one size fits most censorship each country seems to have.