August 01, 2014
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Is that a crime? I guess we”re about to find out, but I sure don”t think so. That said, I wouldn”t be terribly surprised to find out that in 2014 it’s criminal to say things someone doesn”t want to hear on Twitter.
If you don”t like what someone is saying on the Internet, it’s pretty easy to just stop listening, especially if what they”re saying is not defamatory. The whole Internet is basically built around constructing your own bubble of information and going with it. One has to be narcissistic and self-involved enough to actively seek out one’s detractors” opinions in order to know what they are saying.
And, y”know, even I”m not that narcissistic and self-involved.
There’s more at stake here than just one socially ill-adjusted “adult””more than the pair of them, even! Friendly Canada is talking about throwing a man in jail because he’s kind of an idiot, but mostly because he’s the kind of idiot who opposes feminism. One can”t help but wonder if the case isn”t being used less to pester Elliott than to set a precedent.
Anyone who did time in college over the last 20 years can”t be that surprised. The cultural Marxist bomb chuckers are out of law school and getting what passes for “real jobs” these days. As if the first wave of cultural Marxist student activists weren”t bad enough, the second”raised under the regime, educated by those already in power”aren”t just insufferable and awful, they”re dangerous.
Imagine, if you will, a world where the Twitterati can have a gentle sir carted off to the hoosegow for saying things they”d rather not hear.
But you don”t have to imagine it, because we”re already there.
