This 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.
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.