Good morning, The New York Post has been locked out of Twitter for fourteen days. In our current wildfire media environment, news cycles eliciting rage, terror, and shock feel momentous on every flare-up, but only last between a few hours and a few days. After that, we mostly all assume there’s been some kind of resolution, and promptly forget the story ever happened. However, while few people seem to care, last week’s historical censorship of The New York Post is ongoing. Twitter has refused to let the 200-year-old legacy media institution back on its platform until Post editors delete a series of tweets that were, two weeks ago at the time of the Post’s censorship, in violation of the “journalism is illegal” rule no one knew existed before Jack Dorsey locked the Post’s account, and which had certainly never been followed for a story of any significance until this month. In any case, that rule was lifted after it was roundly condemned by Blue Checks, Twitter’s chosen people (a mysterious mix of journalists, celebrities, activists, and ambiguously well-connected rich people granted special privilege on the platform). Even still, Dorsey wants the Post to publicly submit. The editors are thus presented with a choice: delete a series of tweets that are no longer in violation of Dorsey’s rules, or remain blocked from the public square seven days outside of a major presidential election. From the man who runs what used to be “the free speech wing of the free speech party,” it’s a message for every publisher in America: “There is only one rule,” Dorsey seems to be saying, “piss me off, and I’ll erase you from the internet.”

Not at all alarming behavior from one of the most powerful men alive.

Facebook has taken a more reasonable, and frankly smarter approach to their ongoing censorship — or, are they even still censoring the original, offending Post piece? No one really knows. This is a murkiness by design. It’s been a full two weeks, now, and we’ve not been updated on the perfectly standard, perfectly normal, literally we always do this I swear!, third party fact-checking process the media insists is normal.