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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?
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>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.
I do have to admit there was one guy whose picture I wanted to twit (it would be indelicate to mention his name but it rhymed with Hairy Berber) I do support the right of anyone to ignore anyone for any reason at any time (and further to ignore whatever pleas they make for explanation or whatever personality disorders cause them to overly stress over it). It is one of the civilizing principles that keeps people from tearing each other to pieces (more than would happen by random chance)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
