Blocking

Curiously, but perhaps not surprisingly, some "Family Therapist" on X who endlessly rails about free speech, and says things I agree with 100%, has nevertheless blocked me.  His byline is "Freedom of speech gives me the right to hurt your feelings and it gives you the right to cry about it."

Several times now I've tried to like his posts, but I can't like them, nor can I repost, nor can I quote.   I suppose I could photograph them (I've seen people do that, it's a hassle).  He's a favorite of some other guy I follow (who in fact follows me) so I see these posts a lot.

I might have said something that pissed him off, but I don't even ever remember disagreeing with him.

I think what happened is I replied correctively to another poster who was criticizing him.*

(*Sometimes in these sorts of situations people don't like it when outsiders stupidly try to "help" with an argument.  I might have said something stupid, based only on partial understanding.  But it was certainly not threatening, I never do that, and probably not even inflammatory, just perhaps slightly mistaken.  I was thinking of the Three Pashas were zionist figures in the Ottoman Empire who were favorable to Zionism, and were much hated by Turks later.  So in some thread I called Erdogan the "Fourth Pasha" after he unleashed the "rebels" in Syria.  I think that statement may have been the one that got me banned by Mr Family Therapist because I noticed immediately afterwards he had blocked me, but possibly he had blocked me before.  I thought of it as a clever joke, but perhaps it was peculiarly offensive to people who have views similar to mine but know more about the background and context.  I was hoping that, in that case, I might get a reply to correct me, but I didn't, I only got blocked, or so it seemed.)

Ever time I get shown this guy's posts, and try to like them because I agree, which I always do, and find I can't like them for reasons that I can't understand, I feel very dejected.

I feel like turning off X.  And that's probably a good thing.

X could just stop showing me these posts, and that would be fine with me, I'd probably spend more time on X.  But block him?  No way!  I believe in free speech.

It surprises me that X doesn't already do something like that.  Why endlessly show me posts from someone who has blocked me only because they are reposted by someone who hasn't?  Also why does this guy with cranky ideas like mine, combined with a penchant for blocking on the slightest provocation, have 65k followers?