Your Twitter feed is your megaphone.
You are entirely within your rights to block anyone who uses your comment section to promote things you think are harmful.
Your feed isn’t an open mic night. It is your curated space.
You are entirely within your rights to block anyone who uses your comment section to promote things you think are harmful.
Your feed isn’t an open mic night. It is your curated space.
I block people who do things like mirror Russian talking points meant to undermine Democrats and Democratic organizations.
It is not that they don’t have a right to their opinion.
They just don’t have a right to use my reach to promote them.
It is not that they don’t have a right to their opinion.
They just don’t have a right to use my reach to promote them.
As we get further into the primaries and pivot toward the general, I will be even quicker to stifle promotion of harmful things.
If I can’t discern the difference between an opinion and active measures meant to undermine an election, I’ll err on the side of caution.
If I can’t discern the difference between an opinion and active measures meant to undermine an election, I’ll err on the side of caution.
If it is clear the speaker is an actual person but they are nonetheless repeating harmful messages they have ingested from active measures, they are no better than agents of harm.
I offer no apology for tending my own yard.
Doing otherwise would be profoundly irresponsible.
I offer no apology for tending my own yard.
Doing otherwise would be profoundly irresponsible.
Blocking an account isn’t sentencing them to silence.
It is merely choosing to not let them use your microphone.
No one is owed your microphone and no one is silenced when they are always free to use their own.
It is merely choosing to not let them use your microphone.
No one is owed your microphone and no one is silenced when they are always free to use their own.
