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Comment by cratermoon | Hacker News Reader

Once again a privileged person fails to understand the difference between not wanting to interact with someone and wanting someone to not be able to interact with you. The former is like not answering the phone when they call, the latter is preventing them from getting your numbers and calling you over and over, at all hours of the day and night, at home, at work, at a friend's house, etc.

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Jack responded back to Elon and agreed.

And on the surface it seems ok. Basically if you block me then fine I can’t reply to you r posts but if you’re posting publicly why should I not be able to see what you post?

> Basically if you block me then fine I can’t reply to you r posts but if you’re posting publicly why should I not be able to see what you post?

Yes. That's the idea of what Jack is agreeing with. You can still see the public post but you cannot interact or reply to it.

I don't see the problem here. Seems like Techdirt is trying to go back to their old ways on sensationalizing for clicks once again.

> if you’re posting publicly why should I not be able to see what you post?

That means the stalked person has to be constantly on guard about what to post publicly. Things that might seem innocuous to you and I could be giveaways to a domestic abuser looking for his victim. Essentially the abuser will continue to exercise power over the victim.

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