This makes gamer gate type harassment easier because those who the harassee blocked still can see their posts, screenshot, then sic their followers on them.
Yes, you could do this before with alts, but most often, that small barrier was enough to let them forget about you.
if I bothered blocking someone it's because I didn't want to hear from them, I don't really care if they can hear from me, what am I missing here?
This makes gamer gate type harassment easier because those who the harassee blocked still can see their posts, screenshot, then sic their followers on them.
Yes, you could do this before with alts, but most often, that small barrier was enough to let them forget about you.
This is exactly what I meant by the title
Gotcha, I figured there was a good reason I just don't twitter enough to know what