Late last week, after a "fiery but mostly peaceful protest" in Washington DC, a slew of Big Tech media companies including Amazon, Twitter, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Reddit began deplatforming — i.e., censoring, dropping, un/dehosting (I can make up words, too), banning, dropping, purging, suspending from their sites — sometimes permanently — people and/or institutions with whom they disagreed, most prominently President Donald J. Trump (R).  Twitter Safety lamely justified its censorious action: After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence. In a parallel, but unrelated, social media development, more shocking news filtered out Saturday when the millions of followers of Meghan Markle and her husband (formerly known as a Prince) Harry learned: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex...(Read Full Post)