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Twitter is a private service.

Twitter is a private service. You have no right to compel a private company to let you do anything with that service. And more than that, Twitter itself isn't maintaining the blocklists . The people who want to use blocklists are. Freedom of assocation has never meant, "I get to walk into -your- meeting and do whatever I want." It means you can set up your own meeting. You can't force your way into the blocklist users' field of view, and while that may be personally frustrating for you, it is entirely within the entire world's right to ignore you if the entire world chooses.

Posted by Frondo on Apr 20, 2015, 3:56 PM

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Twitter is a private service.

FrondoApr 20, 2015, 3:56 PM

Twitter is a private service. You have no right to compel a private company to let you do anything with that service. And more than that, Twitter itself isn't maintaining the blocklists . The people who want to use blocklists are. Freedom of assocation has never meant, "I get to walk into -your- meeting and do whatever I want." It means you can set up your own meeting. You can't force your way into the blocklist users' field of view, and while that may be personally frustrating for you, it is entirely within the entire world's right to ignore you if the entire world chooses.

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