You shouldn’t be able to stand on a soapbox and tell certain people to cover their ears. Twitter allows you to send messages to your followers specifically, Fa

You shouldn’t be able to stand on a soapbox and tell certain people to cover their ears. Twitter allows you to send messages to your followers specifically, Facebook allows you to send it to your friends etc. Social media is bad enough already for public discourse and the way blocks work on it just made things worse. Reddit is arguably even worse, block is basically used to have the last word and the entire chain of comments is deleted only for you as others can continue to comment in it. The reason why social media did this is because they were lazy and didn’t want to take responsibility for policing their userbase. But this doesn’t make a better product. Places like Reddit shouldn’t allow you to block users at all other than from directly PMing you. If you don’t want to participate in a public debate don’t. There shouldn’t be a tool that would allow you to decide who else participates in it. I really don’t understand why this concept is so confusing to people this days.