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.