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that's one of the things i never understood. twitter gives you SO MANY TOOLS to avoid seeing what you don't want to see. you can lock your account, lock replies, block accounts, mute accounts, filter keywords and that's not without mentioning the granularity of notifications.

i, myself, almost never see what i consider hateful content.

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Maybe I’m just not willing to put in as much effort as you, but despite everything I tried I could not stop unwanted content from meeting my eyes. Except for the step of not using it any longer, of course.

I feel like "unwanted" and "hateful" content are potentially two very different circles in a Venn diagram.

So? That's beside the point we're talking about. If I can't hide content I don't want to see, what difference does it make what kind of content it is? How do you know the unwanted content I'm talking about wasn't hateful?

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