The moment I read of the outrage in the morning papers I tweeted about it. I am a relative newcomer to the social network, but have already set up an amiable relationship with a number of total strangers. Back came their replies. “Fahrenheit 451 revisited” tweeted one, reminding me of the Ray Bradbury novel in which a future US outlaws books. Someone else spoke of book burning and its perpetrators; another of how “everything good/beneficial is being stripped away”. It certainly feels like that. Good things that we have come to take for granted are suddenly gone from our lives. And somehow this midnight raid hinted that something more sinister might be on the way.