Nanny nag notice

These notices that put a delay on sharing have a subtle effect of self-censorship. They bring everyone into the fold of slanted journalism, whether they are aware of it or not. There is a veiled threat that we might ban your account if you share this. It makes people self-censor.

These nags are not only annoying, they are dangerous self-censorship training camps.

Some other platform goes like

Whenever you share something on certain subjects, this platform reacts.

Some other company bot scans the posts and quietly assigns everyone a "search bubble." 62bvkm.jpg (click to show)

“If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between ‘for’ and ‘against’ is the mind’s worst disease.” — Jianzhi Sengchan

The concerted effort to herd us into camps of "for" and "against" encompasses many subjects, not just the current one, whatever that is. I don't want to stand out as "for" or "against." But the pigeonholing, abuse, and censorship has to end. https://medium.com/this-thing-is-called-life/you-have-no-idea-b337c7af0c33