You need to define harassment. For example what kind of harassment is avoided by blocking instead of just muting a person ?
> They can just open an incognito window. They aren't really blocked from viewing his tweets.
What if your local DMV tells a black citizen to go to some other DMV and get a driving manual ?
Secondly, if you are an ordinary person and I retweet your every tweet calling you a moron you might consider it harassment and block me but public officials do not have such luxury. It is a very fundamental feature of American democracy to call your president an idiot. He can't claim harassment there.
You bring up valid points. I wasn't aware there was block and mute as separate functions.
> What if your local DMV tells a black citizen to go to some other DMV and get a driving manual ?
Not sure the relevance to this discussion. What you are describing is racism, not denying access to problematic individuals.
I think the point here is there is no black and white answer, it falls on a spectrum. The "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" is fine if you are a small mom and pop shop but not as you get bigger. Especially if you provide critical infrastructure or government function. Not sure it can be codified in an absolute law though.
> They can just open an incognito window. They aren't really blocked from viewing his tweets.
What if your local DMV tells a black citizen to go to some other DMV and get a driving manual ?
Secondly, if you are an ordinary person and I retweet your every tweet calling you a moron you might consider it harassment and block me but public officials do not have such luxury. It is a very fundamental feature of American democracy to call your president an idiot. He can't claim harassment there.