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>>This has been an interesting thread. My thought is that a twit filter is a form of the restriction of freedom of speech and it should be removed.
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>I must be using the UT differently from others. I see a treeview of messages. I see the topic and the poster. I click on what I think I'd like to read. Why would I need to block anything. I read messages selectively. Is there somebody out there just reading *everything* unless they protect themselves from it?

I agree with you. I don't use the twit filter and have no intentions of ever doing so, but if others want to use it, I see it as their right to do so. And I certainly don't see it as restriction of anybody's freedom of speech. There are people here who have been twitted by others, but I still see their posts, so I don't see how their freedom of speech has been in any way compromised.