“This question should be asked to those people who are claiming to be promoters of freedom of speech, who do not allow the publication of all information… I can ask Facebook company. This question should be asked to them” says a Taliban spokesman in response to a reporter’s question at a press conference, through a translator. The exact question asked is unclear, but most likely in regard to Facebook’s ban on all Taliban-related material on its platforms enacted Thursday.
Sometimes these things are so easy to write they actually become hard to write, like we get paralyzed by the indecision of exactly how to deliver a good joke given the excruciatingly painful obviousness of a parallel such as this one is to a well-treaded topic for National Zero. There’s only so much our obnoxiously dry parsimony can do here, so pick it up for us in the comments.