A little over a week ago, Facebook and a host of other companies removed Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist and possible Nicholas Cage performance-art project, from their platforms to much online rejoicing. Both Jones’s personal accounts and Infowars pages, including various videos, were expunged from these platforms. Since then, the online liberal-left has taken Twitter to task for not doing the same.

Then yesterday came the announcement that the Facebook page of teleSUR English, the English language version of the Venezuela-based television network sponsored by five Latin American governments, had been removed from the social media platform with no reason given, the second time this has happened this year. When the administrator of the left-wing site Revolution News scheduled an article from teleSUR English covering this incident of censorship to be posted to his own outlet’s Facebook page, he received a request from Facebook within seconds asking him to secure his account and confirm his primary location. (TeleSUR English has now been reinstated).

The point here isn’t that these cases are the same. According to Facebook and others, Jones was removed for violating their policies against hate speech, whereas it’s never been made clear why teleSUR English has been removed from Facebook twice now. But both point to the trouble of turning wealthy, corporate tech overlords into moderators of content.