>If a senator blocks you on Twitter, there's very little chance that they were going to ever see your comments in the first place You over-estimate the narciss

>If a senator blocks you on Twitter, there's very little chance that they were going to ever see your comments in the first place You over-estimate the narcissism and under estimate the opsec of most senators and in turn, most juris doctorates (from whose ranks many so called public servants are pulled)... it was not long ago it was a common mini-scandal for someone, usually on the right, to accidentally heart some porn on their "work" device[1]. I wish I'd known when younger I could simply refuse to be imparted esoteric knowledge and live a life of error. If they're not on their phone, they're on their office computer name searching constantly when they're not editing their own Wikipedias. This case will be decided long after folks who, if it is decided such silencing is undemocratic, have been driven to post in ways that have them booted off whole networks. *The decision to become a public figure, like to become a dissident, is a forever decision*, and when folks try to "curate their timeline" like a teenager, they are no longer members of civil society and lose the protections granted to such persons. TL;DR: They see these comments, and that is why they block. [1] Married Texas senator, who once defended a ban on sex toys, asked to explain how his account came to like the graphic post https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/12/ted-cruz-twitter-account-likes-pornographic-tweet https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/12/ted-cruz-twi...