China has permitted the WHO team studying the origin of Covid-19 to enter China.

The topic under investigation is scientific, not an attempt to blame China or establish conspiracy theories.

Twitter is clamping down on QAnonsense, blaming it for stirring up the insurrection.

Facebook is putting a limit (easy to work around) on one PR phrase used in election disinformation.

If anything deserves to be censored, it the fascist movement, because that is dangerous to Americans and our freedom. But it was the power of these giant companies that enabled the wrecker to build the fascist movement, and that power is dangerous in itself, aside from the danger of the fascist movement.

We need to reduce their power, not reassure ourselves that "They are protecting us now."

The right wing's Orwellian shift: from praising media dominated by big business as "freedom" to condemning this as tyrannical censorship.

Two officers of the Capitol Police have been suspended for showing sympathy towards the insurrectionists during the insurrection.

People in general have the right to express that opinion, but anyone who feels that way is not fit to hold a job protecting against insurrections.

Ron Paul, former congresscritter, has been blocked from his Facebook page and given no explanation.

Ron Paul is an Antisocialist (he says, "Libertarian"): he advocates civil liberties for individuals and deregulation for business. I support the former and oppose the latter, but that's not the point here.

The crucial point is that he has not supported the anti-truth right-wing disinformation, let alone the insurrection, and yet he is being silenced in its wake.

Evidently we can't count on Facebook to silence only coup plotting. We can't in general expect Facebook to do the right thing, since it has done so much wrong.

"Have the tech companies silence the disinformationists" sounds like a solution, but it gives those companies unchecked power. Their obvious next step would be to censor people who

Governor Snyder faces charges for poisoning the people of Flint, Michigan.

It always seemed implausible to me that he did not know what his lieutenants were doing.