Going to be honest, I think you need to go back to reddit.
None of what you say seems to be in good faith whereas the person you're replying to is at least giving personal experiences from both being a kid in that system and having worked in it as an adult.
Downvote haraas and insult me all you want, won't change the fact that you aren't contributing to a better community or dialogue.
I'm not attempting to excuse the behavior by any means (no matter how much it sounds otherwise).
Just explaining that this is behavior we can and should expect from an authoritarian state with no regard for human rights. Hopefully that clarifies things a little bit.
Honestly, with the user level blocking feature in personally against instance level blocking as well.
I strong believe in user choice. It's clear from this thread that there isn't an overwhelming majority in favor of instance blocking threads. There does not appear to be one that's not in favor.
1a) if the instance held a vote on the matter id naturally accept the majority choice.
if privacy is a concern (which it should be because Facebook), we're already screwed. Fediverse interactions (comments posts votes) are a matter of public record. So even if we block threads at the instance level, they can still zuck up our data so we're not really gaining anything there.
Edit: if you're going to down ote, be better than reddit and expand your thoughts. We're here to discuss, not act like children redditors
At the moment, I'm sitting right and watching because I've already kicked the hornets nest quite a bit both by publicly asking management very tough questions and by suggesting to my team that if enough of us don't show up there isn't much they can do about it.