Follow Buddies and Block Buddies: A Simple Proposal to Improve Civility, Control, and Privacy on Twitter - Lawfare

Crucially, a block- and follow-buddy system might help forestall some governmental pressure for platforms like Twitter to remove hateful and terroristic speech. That pressure should not be underestimated; the recent Code of Conduct agreement between Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube, and the EU Commission on hate speech demonstrates as much.