ike you're kind of boycotting members of your own team. I get that you're mad at them for whatever they did or didn't do, but how's that good for you? I don't think... I would say this: think of your own self-interest. That's probably more important than any statement you're going to make.

All right. Well, that'll be fun. Elon Musk tweeted that he's going to get rid of the block feature on X. What do you think happened when he said he's going to get rid of the block feature? Well, let's talk about that. I don't know that it's going to happen because there was a pretty big response about it, but it probably will. Probably will. His argument, I'm guessing his argument, I'm guessing, would be that free speech is free speech and it's a free speech platform. But I'm not sure that trolls are a free speech question, are they? Trolls, it's more like you have freedom to walk down the street, but if somebody bangs you in the head while you're walking down the street, you weren't as free as you thought.

Now I will echo something that Zuby said about this, which is if you have a smallish, you know, normal Twitter account, this is a good idea for you. If you have a big account, lots of followers like Zuby, it's a problem because you just end up attracting accidentally just the ugliest messaging in the world. Now it's so ugly that it would prevent me from looking at your comments on my own timeline. So one of the things that I like about my experience on X is that I can tweet something and then I look at all the different comments and people agree and disagree. And because I've blocked so heavily up to this point, I almost always get reasonably good debates in my comments. Has anybody noticed? Maybe you don't block the people I do so it doesn't look that way, but my own experience of it is that I don't get too many of the just evil trolls. I get more people who just disagree and they've got a different data source, and that stuff's great.

So I would say that my experience would be degraded if you took blocking away from me. And by the way, blocking gives me a dopamine hit. So when the trolls take my dopamine away and I'm like, I feel icky, then I hit the block. My dopamine returns. So I use the block literally as a mental health tool. And that's not an analogy. That's actually the literal thing I'm doing. My mind is not feeling good. I just read a troll. I block. My mind is cleared and then I go on with my day. It's actually literally no joke an important part of my mental health. That's not any hyperbole. It's an important part of my mental health.

Now, but the counterargument is this: who cares about you? Which is a pretty good argument. The best counterargument is who cares about you because you're one of the rich big accounts. Almost anybody with a small account, you know, who wanted more exposure would trade places. You know, wouldn't the people with a thousand followers if they could trade places with me to have a million and have more trolls? Well, not everybody, but a lot of people would. So on one hand, I hate this change and it would make me feel way less happy about my experience. On the other hand, Musk's argument is a populist argument. Most people on Twitter are smaller accounts and they would like to have their say. Free speech is... isn't it free speech?

And I'm going to come down on this where I haven't seen anybody else come down on it. Removing blocking would be absolutely bad for my experience and my mental health. I don't know if it would be bad for people with small accounts, and they're the vast majority. Why would my preference be more important than a vast majority of people? It's not. It's just not. Because I have freedom to use it or not use it, read the comments or not read the comments. I have lots of freedom. So it really comes down to my problem, doesn't it? Do I think that the vast number of Twitter users should be degraded in their experience? In other words, they're the ones getting blocked. Should I degrade all of their experience so I can get my little benefit? But I think