[throwaway82652]

>The irony here is hilarious.

I fail to see why. If you get your way, and all the "free speech" people get blocked because everyone else finds them insufferable, then that's exactly what you asked for. It's also incredibly bad taste and rude to suggest that blocking happens because things "hurt your feelings", please never utter that phrase in this context again. That's an extremely trollish way to approach conversation and you need to stop. Disagreement happens for other reasons besides "hurt feelings".

I think you do actually understand though that "just block it" is a bad strategy because this is fundamentally not how humans interact in a large group. Every person can't go through the trouble of vetting every single thing that's being said all the time. At some point you have to trust someone to tell you if someone else is being a jerk or not a jerk. And that's why it's weak to somehow try to turn this into an issue of "social media censorship". If blocking isn't censorship then this isn't censorship either.

[stale2002]

> and all the "free speech" people get blocked because everyone else finds them insufferable

No actually. The problem with the pro-censorship people is that they don't just try to block people. Instead they try to get them kicked off of platforms.

The "free speech" circles just want to have the ability to be on the same platform, and talk to other people within that circle. If you don't want to listen to them, thats fine. They just want the ability to be on the same platform, and talk to the people who don't block them.

> Every person can't go through the trouble

That is why someone suggested allowing voluntary, 3rd parties tools. That way, everyone can get what they want. You can choose to use 3rd parties tools. And those who don't like those tools are free to not do so.

> At some point you have to trust someone

It is fine for you to personally trust someone to handling blocking for you. The issue is when you try to force everyone else to accept that same 3rd party.

If you can choose to use that censor, but other people can be on the same platform and choose to not do so, then everyone gets what they want.

[hstan4]

You call the “free speech people” insufferable and say they have no idea what they’re talking about, yet say I’m the one being rude referring to offended people crying to Twitter to ban people because they can’t just ignore (as you suggested you’d do) the tweet they didn’t like?