FLOCKVILLE, USA – A burgeoning controversy has erupted in the quiet agricultural community of Flockville, where local shepherd, Bartholomew 'Barty' Woolsworth, 67, stands accused of deliberately 'unlinking' his flock from critical digital conversations, forcing them into what critics are calling 'unmediated, analog grazing experiences.'

Sources close to the pasture indicate that Woolsworth has been actively discouraging his sheep from engaging with the burgeoning 'EweTube' platform and the 'Lamb-it' discussion forums, instead herding them towards actual, physical patches of grass. "He just points his crook and says, 'Go discuss that fescue, Brenda,'" reported a visibly shaken Peta Fluffington, 32, a self-proclaimed 'Sheep Influencer' and founder of the 'Pasture-to-Pixel' advocacy group.

Dr. Sheldon Baa-rington, Head of Bovine and Ovine Digital Inclusion at the Institute for Advanced Livestock Connectivity, expressed grave concerns. "This 'unlinking' behavior is deeply troubling. It deprives these sentient beings of vital peer-to-peer engagement and access to curated content on optimal cud-chewing techniques. We're seeing a dangerous regression to pre-fiber-optic pastoralism."

Woolsworth, reached while mending a fence, remained defiant. "They're sheep, not data packets. Their 'discussion' involves bleating and eating. If they want a link, I'll tie one to their collar." His comments have only fueled the outrage, with calls for a full governmental inquiry into what some are terming 'digital sheep-apartheid.'