[whatshisface]

A lot of people would say I'm transgressing my bounds if I try to use the influence I gained by paying for my server to threaten you into changing what content your server serves to your users. That's the essence of "block X or I'll block you."

[phoe-krk]

And? They have a right to do so. In particular, they have a right to defederate any server for any reasons - which includes mine, yours, or this other person's, with or without asking things like "block X or I'll block you".

[whatshisface]

Isn't that a bit like saying a gold prospector has a right to shoot anybody in the whole Wild West, all because he can?

[phoe-krk]

Equating murder, even attempted, with defederation - this is a fallacy.

[whatshisface]

The only way for the analogy to hold no water at all would be for bans and deceleration to not harm anyone; that's not true in many cases.

[phoe-krk]

I think that a better analogy would be: if someone shows up at your doorstep, you are free to not let them in.