I think that this puts the lie to the whole idea that the left liked to spout, which is that well, it's not censorship if private companies are doing it. You know, private companies can do whatever they want. Not just the left. The right loves that line too. We've got plenty of our own.
French police shot and killed Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old immigrant of Algerian and Moroccan descent with a long history of criminal activity, sparking violent protest across the country. Is this France’s George Floyd moment—or something darker still? Stateside, the courts have been on a roll, preliminarily blocking the Biden administration from overtly colluding with social media companies and banning explicit race-based affirmative action in university admissions. The editors discuss the rolling civilizational crisis and, of course, remind you to read the damn site.