Analysts and employees inside the private companies that manage the microblogs say party officials are pressing for increasingly strict and swift censorship of unapproved opinions.
It was March 2015 and same-sex marriage was on the verge of becoming legal nationwide – carried by probably the swiftest change in public opinion in US history – but the Indiana governor and establishment favorite going into 2016 was standing firm.
"A very swift service is, in my opinion, a waste of energy," he gravely admonishes.
For a time after the deflatingly swift capture of Baghdad, public opinion on Iraq had been confused.
As with the Indy site, there are labels that are hardly reader-friendly for the swift surfer: "essentials, explainers, distractions, opinion".
But it seems, at present, unlikely that such a turnaround in public opinion will be swift and sharp enough to halt the process of Brexit entirely.
For those "haters" who dare to voice a different opinion, retribution is swift: they will be shamed, shouted down, silenced, censored, fired, cast out and generally relegated to the dust heap of ignorant, mean-spirited bullies who are guilty of various "word crimes".
"Officer Falconer's actions, again, were swift and direct and in my opinion appropriate".
Artur Davis, a former federal prosecutor and former United States representative from Alabama, said that the swift decision revealed Walton's underlying opinion of the case.
Mr. Bush got his big bounce in the public opinion polls from the Swift boat nonsense and the mocking, nonstop criticism of Senator Kerry at the Republican National Convention.
