Afghan debacle once more exposes the incoherence of social media censorship

Social media companies have come under pressure to censor accounts linked to the Taliban, but there seem to be no clear guidelines or public policy.
Political censorship of social media became endemic last year as the Covid pandemic hit and the US general election approached. It coincides with an era of extreme partisanship, in which almost everything has become politicised and thus subject to censorship. The latest focus of US establishment censors is the Taliban, who effortlessly retook contro