This comment is in part political, contrary to the established policy of this my blog. So it is definitely off topic.

Given that the Congress of the United States has failed or refused to override the regulations of the Federal Communications Commission, thereby surrendering the internet to the highest bidder, it remains to be seen how much longer anyone will be able to read this my blog.

I will, however, continue to write it.

I once wrote “Je Suis Charlie,” when fellow-journalists were attacked. I now join colleagues now or formerly in Stalinist Russia (or its current embodiment, wheresoever situate) and shall write samizdat pieces, self-published and “for the desk drawer,” circulation not permitted by the authorities.

I am sure that, one day, the authorities who now try to ban us will come to the same end as those in the past.