I just got onto Twitter to post this article along with a tweet saying something like:<p>&quot;Authorities will use terrorism as excuse to censor social media, but then actually they&#x27;ll use it to censor ordinary Germans talking about New Year&#x27;s Eve.&quot;<p>I WAS UNABLE TO TWEET IT!<p>Whenever I started typing &quot;New Year&#x27;s Eve&quot; the character limit would turn red, even though I was within the limit.<p>Then I realized: my VPN was in Europe! They were already censoring my tweet!<p>I had to switch my VPN out of Europe, AND clear my cookies, before I was able to tweet about it.<p>This is no joke -- it was a really creepy feeling. And the White House is moving now to impose the same censorship in the USA?<p>It&#x27;s torch-and-pitchfork time. We need P2P social media immediately.