Twitter Will Help You Shut Up

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Twitter plans to introduce a new feature that will warn you off using “harmful language,” so you can censor yourself before they do it for you (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/05/06/twitter-will-now-warn-you-if-you-are-about-to-post-wrongthink/). Isn’t that nice of them?

Sometimes, explains a Twitter executive, “when things get heated, you may say things you don’t mean.” Uh-huh. “We’re trying to encourage people to rethink their behavior.”

Who do these people think they are? Do they have any idea, any dim little ghost of an idea, what pompous self-important schmendricks they are? What little tinpot fascists they are? They’re gonna save us from ourselves, by cracky!

No! Go away! Out, damned spot!

We need saving from those pinheads who want to save us.