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Agree. Before I read the article I assumed that this would be a tongue-in-cheek series of suggestions that would destroy twitter.

I could make the argument that the article uses it well, whether or not that was the authors intention. It is a fitting allegory if you stretch it.

Swift's proposal is satire in order to capture the attention of readers and point it to abuses of power. One could make an allusion to poor children serving the public good and how that relates to morals and values with the spread of (negative) viral content and how tweet-babies could be better served better for consumption by the public.

I haven't thought it through much more than that, but I could see it.

Of course they know. But to punish them for annoying you we have deprived them of their modesty above.