It's always been very easy to read somebody's tweets even if they blocked you, you simply can't have something that's publicly visible and also stop specific people from seeing it. The only downside to this is that a lot of nasty activists will be making their accounts private now.
I don't see a downside to activists making their accounts private.
It might make people who are quick to anger understand what public and private mean, and that you can't act like an asshole to everyone around you when your feelings get hurt, and expect not to be called on it.
It also might start to chisel a tiny dent in activists bubble and make them realize that a public persona is how they're known, and if they want people to think they're relatively normal, they'll have to act that way, or go private so they can still be immature babies.
But I don't expect either of these things to take root for a good few years, if at all.
It's always been very easy to read somebody's tweets even if they blocked you, you simply can't have something that's publicly visible and also stop specific people from seeing it. The only downside to this is that a lot of nasty activists will be making their accounts private now.
I keep my account on private because I only use it for following artists and liking art, and fucking weirdos keep trying to follow me for some reason.
Thereby destroying their reach. LOL
I don't see a downside to activists making their accounts private.
It might make people who are quick to anger understand what public and private mean, and that you can't act like an asshole to everyone around you when your feelings get hurt, and expect not to be called on it.
It also might start to chisel a tiny dent in activists bubble and make them realize that a public persona is how they're known, and if they want people to think they're relatively normal, they'll have to act that way, or go private so they can still be immature babies.
But I don't expect either of these things to take root for a good few years, if at all.