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There are two types of blocking. Blocking someone from appearing for you, and blocking someone from seeing what you post. IMO, the former should be legal in al
by Akronymus 3y ago
There are two types of blocking. Blocking someone from appearing for you, and blocking someone from seeing what you post.
IMO, the former should be legal in all cases, but the latter, CAN be problematic if it's an official. Tbh, I am not much of a fan of the latter one in any case.
- efitz 3y agoExactly this. Government employees should have some official channel that any constituent can use to communicate with them, but it doesn’t have to be every (or any) social media network. The ability to reply on social media networks is largely an amplification mechanism, not a meaningful avenue for redress of grievances. When I “block” you it variously means that (1) I don’t see your messages/replies and sometimes also (2) you don’t see my messages. I think that #2 is problematic for government accounts but #1 is reasonable.
- amadeuspagel 3y agoWhen you block people they can't reply to your tweets. Completely legitimate IMO, but different from just ignoring people's emails, or sending them to the spam folder, which is something you could do privately, and which AFAIK wouldn't be a constitutional issue in any case.
- iudqnolq 3y agoI think you might find the appeals court decision interesting. They look at other impacts of blocking. One thing they consider is that the blocked constituents can view public pages on Facebook, but not public profiles on Twitter. But they consider that blocked constituents can't reply.
- MrStonedOne 3y ago[dead]