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by phoe-krk 905 days ago
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".
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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?
Equating murder, even attempted, with defederation - this is a fallacy.
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.
I think that a better analogy would be: if someone shows up at your doorstep, you are free to not let them in.