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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about politics.

It's Thursday, February 18th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

In the wake of the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,

several social media companies banned a host of far-right figures,

as well as President Trump.

The move provoked accusations from the right

that Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms

had violated their users' constitutional right to free speech.

When Simon & Schuster canceled plans to publish a book

by Senator Josh Hawley,

whose rhetoric was seen as supportive of the insurrectionists at the Capitol,

...