Now, in the age of modern communications, we can just mute people we disagree with so our sensitive ears don’t encounter anything too challenging.You’ve probably already locked down your social media accounts to avoid having to think too deeply about alternative viewpointsWell, if you’re admin of that group you will soon be able to silence dissenting voices using a new ‘send messages’ feature which stops everyone in the group from sending messages apart from youIf the group chat boss switches on this feature, everyone else will be notified with a message which reads: ‘Only admins can send messages.’Members of the group will also have their chat text input bar removed, making it literally impossible to speak.Fans of ancient history will remember that civilisations of yore achieved a similar effect by cutting out people’s tongues, so at least we’ve moved on a bit since thenThis new superpower can be enabled by downloading Whatsapp version 2.18.201 for Android or 2.18.70 for iOS.
