Twitter is openly blocking doubleplusungood tweets that utter the phrase “illegal alien“.

Slight problem is that that is an actual term used in actual Federal Law:

Does Twitter now ban the plain text of federal law? 8 U.S. Code § 1252c is entitled “Authorizing State and local law enforcement officials to arrest and detain certain illegal aliens.” It authorizes the state or local arrest of illegal alien felons. https://t.co/VOnyhcTaqV — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 13, 2018

Even if one could trust Twitter to honestly act solely out of a desire to stop heated rhetoric (stop laughing), filters don’t grok context, such as use in an actual law on the books. This won’t end well.

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