Targeted Censorship

Facebook, which allowed climate denialists, Brexiteers and Trumpsterites to squeal, accuse, incite and lie for years on end, has plucked up the courage to come down hard on an uppity black man. While planning to lift the Trumpster's ban more or less in time for the 2024 presidential campaign, Nick Clegg's surrogate Bullingdon Club removed a post by a Nobel peace laureate for inciting and supporting violence. The prime minister of Ethiopia had threatened to "bury" his government's opponents in Ethiopia's latest civil war; and Facebook evidently decided to take the time-honoured approach of the International Criminal Court, which prosecutes African gangsters while insouciantly winking at the peccadilloes of the English-speaking peoples.