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I'm afraid you're going to need to spell it out to me. What are the opportunities for abuse here that aren't already present in the form of private WhatsApp groups or shared Google Docs with lists of accounts and abusive notes about them?

I'm not saying there aren't any, but my imagination hasn't been able to come up with anything more than "it makes it slightly more convenient for co-ordinated harrassers to remember who they were planning on harrassing".

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I think there's more than a quantitative difference between "slightly more convenient" and "with no effort". A centrally maintained list of labelled "enemies" that you get forever with a click is materially different than having to research people who gave you a reason to do so.

Using your logic, a shared blocklist could also be a way to "harass" people.

Is your thesis that since we live in a world of infinite possibilities, any device that makes harassment more efficient is not worth measured consideration for guard rails because there’s always a different and worse way to it?

The labels feature was originally designed to help PROTECT against harassment - people being harassed can use labels to share notes with each other about hostile accounts.

Does that positive use of the feature outweight any potential negative uses?

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