Facebook's power over journalism has morphed into censorship of the news.

The Prime Minister of Norway posted to criticize the censorship. Facebook deleted his post.

It is dangerous for Facebook to have this much power. Instead of trying to compromise, we should take it away.

Instead of the proposed "link tax" that would serve no valid public purpose, I suggest passing a law that would stop Facebook from distributing journalistic works published elsewhere. Perhaps this could apply to companies that have over total of over 1 million user accounts, or generally to all companies that run social networks. These sites should be allowed only to make links to independent original publication sites.

Another idea is to tax publication of each such article, with the tax rate determined by the number of users the company has. To republish a few articles each day would not cost them much; to publish thousands would be prohibitively expensive.

"Increasingly the tech business is all about making good products artificially redundant and mediocre ones seem relevant."

There is only one global civilization nowadays, and differences between groups fall in the gaps between the many areas of near universal agreement.

Catholic Herald published an article about "god's love" and declined to mention that the author was a high official responsible for sending Abdel Hakim Belhaj and his wife to Libya for Qadhafi's men to torture.

Then it refused to publish an article by Belhaj that asks for the author to understand and apologize.

The reason toilets in many BART stations are closed is paranoia about terrorism.

It may be true, to some small degree, that the toilets are a security risk. But there must be thousands of such small risks, and it is folly to pay any real price to eliminate one of them. Thus, while I am glad BART has found a way to convince itself that it has made the toilets "safe", it made a mistake shutting them at all.