> There's no other comparable situation in which you'd make a public announcement and somehow expect some group of people who could hear it to not hear it. The

> There's no other comparable situation in which you'd make a public announcement and somehow expect some group of people who could hear it to not hear it. The problem is, it used to work one way and now Twitter is (or, was) changing it with some really flimsy justification (now they can't tell when you blocked them! except there are other ways that worked). It'd be one thing if blocking worked this way from day one, it's another entirely to suddenly change it.