Nigeria says that use of Twitter is banned and it will prosecute anyone who tweets.

Publishing news obtained from Twitter is banned too.

Plutocracy interferes at every political level in efforts to save civilization from global heating disaster.

The world can no longer allow profit-seeking companies such as Shell to manage the continued use of fossil fuels. They will try to drag it out as long as they can.

The wealthy countries have put a lot of money into developing new fossil fuel facilities in poor countries. This is busting the carbon budget and directing civilization toward disaster.

The UK minister for domestic oppression wants internet platforms to delete postings that "glamourise" migrants' crossing the channel illegally.

This shows that censorship is now the go-to British solution for unpleasant communications.

Israeli thugs beat up, then arrested al-Jazeera journalist Givara Budeiri while she was covering a protest. As usual, the thugs fabricated outrageous accusations against her, but even if they were true, they would not have justified ordering her to stop covering the protests for 15 days.

*Our decision to structure patent and copyright monopolies in a way that allows for a small number of people to get incredibly rich is because we have politicians who like very rich people.*

If China is on track to provide vaccines to most of the world by early 2022, it seems that a western investment in increased vaccine production would be a waste now, because it is too late to help. It would, reportedly, produce enough vaccine to vaccinate the world by the end of 2022, but long before that it won't be needed any more.

Why is China going faster? I suspect it has more to do with the (low) competence of the western business system than with the competence of western engineers. This too is due to having politicians who like very rich people.