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This isn't going to open the flood gates of harassment. You can still block accounts from your DMs and mute accounts more generally. Genuine assholes can easily
by tjpnz 3y ago
This isn't going to open the flood gates of harassment. You can still block accounts from your DMs and mute accounts more generally. Genuine assholes can easily roll new accounts or incite a mob of their own followers, just as they've always done. What this really does is make it harder for petty people to get the last word, and ironically this also includes Elon who's notoriously thin skinned.
If Twitter were to be the digital manifestation of a town square this would arguably bring it one step closer. Public spaces can be cruel and inhospitable places, they were never meant to be your personal safe space.
- matsemann 3y agoThis is a bad and dangerous take, spoken as someone that has never faced real abuse on twitter. If you're any kind of minority, the hate is endless. You're acting as if blocking is mainly used to "get the last word", which it's not. It's to not have people constantly harassing you for just existing. And if you can only mute, you will not see it all but instead be a vessel to spread abuse to all your followers. The town square analogy sucks. No one would accept a hate group going into their circle to shout slurs. Free speech absolutists don't care about other's freedom to live peacefully, only their own "right" to harass people.
- cubefox 3y ago> If you're any kind of minority, the hate is endless. I don't think this is true at all. People who get the most hate are not minorities but non-minority celebrities with controversial takes like J.K. Rowling.
- matsemann 3y agoNo, Rowling is one of those spewing hate, then receiving pushback. Trans people however just want to live their lives in peace but get constantly harassed. A big difference.
- cubefox 3y ago... that's the far-left take on the dispute. It perfectly shows that what is viewed as "harassment" and what counts as "pushback" is highly subjective and dependent on political leaning. So blocking can be alternatively interpreted as blocking evil "harassment" or as unfairly blocking righteous "pushback". That's probably why so many people are in favor of blocking: They all employ the definitions of those terms in a way that is convenient to them.
- woriads 3y agoShe's asserting the rights of women to have female-only spaces, and to not be linguistically erased. That's not exactly "spewing hate" is it.
- matsemann 3y agoPerhaps trans women should have the right to a safe space as well, hence be able to block people?
- cubefox 3y agoNo, because other people won't be able to block them either. Anything else would be unfair.
- malfist 3y agoNo, she's not. Female only spaces would include all females. Not whomever Rowling decides has sufficient quantities of the essence of what she defines as woman.
- cubefox 3y agoA "female" is a biological sex category for all kinds of animals. It has little to do with the allegedly socially "constructed" concept of "gender identity".
- cutemonster 3y ago"Trans woman Isla Bryson jailed for eight years for raping two women" I wonder if you did not know about that, or if you think that that person should share dressing room and showers with biological women. If you didn't know about that, maybe now it's simpler for you to at least a bit see how JKR is thinking? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/28/trans-woman-isla-bryson-jailed-raping-two-women https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/28/trans-woman-... (Just to avoid misunderstandings: Such events are of course very rare, the trans people I know are kind and lovely people)