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by 8note 1513 days ago
If I don't like it, I don't want to use the platform, and I want the platform to know about it so they can decide whether it's speech they want to go shouting to the world. Social media companies have a right to speech too.

If you want the block button to be the way, everyone should start blocked from each other, with no option to start seeing each other's posts without both paying $100 to the platform, per relationship.

Discovery is the company's speech, and unrelated to the posters' protections. If you want one that doesn't have a company's speech involved, get the government to build a social media system, or just the one they already have: the post office

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How do you handle this for yourself in the physical world? What do you do when you come across someone on a street corner with a megaphone shouting some insane nonsense?