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>If a person doesn't like them, quit and spare us the dramatic exit article.

Would you have said the same about the Declaration of Independence? Sometimes it is a great step forward in dissent to outline why you find the current regime intolerable and why you are leaving.



So tired of all these stamp taxes and microaggressions, I’m quitting England forever and deleting my account.


Assuming you're not joking, I feel like most of these I'm quitting articles could have been written by some version of Microsoft Clippy + GPT-3, which can hardly be said of the Declaration of Independence.


King George said about the same thing concerning the Declaration.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/king-speaks-for-...


If twitter starts invading the homes of quitters and executing them as traitors, it would certainly add a degree of risk to these decisions.




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