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Quillette Podcast 4 - Meghan Murphy on Why Twitter Was Wrong to Ban Her

Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Meghan Murphy, the founder of Feminist Current, a radical feminist blog and podcast. Meghan was recently banned from Twitter for “dead-naming” and “misgendering” trans women, activities that are now prohibited in Twitter’s terms of service. She wrote about this for Quillette.

Quillette

30 Nov 2018 · 1 min read

The Comment Awards Fiasco

That seems itself to be an example of divisiveness and a snub to one form of diversity: that of diverse opinion.

Claire Fox

25 Oct 2018 · 9 min read

When Censorship Is Crowdsourced

The very writers, publishers, poets, musicians, comedians, media producers and artists who once worried about being muzzled by the government are now self-organizing on social media (Twitter, especially) to censor each other.

Jonathan Kay

9 Sep 2018 · 13 min read

Real Art Is Bound to Cause Offence

Artists should be nervous when advocacy groups gain influence over the creative process: Their focus is never art. It’s always their own narrow agenda.

Gabriel Scorgie

26 Aug 2018 · 10 min read

Banning Bitcoin to Complete Big Tech Censorship

Bitcoin’s decentralized network means that regardless of how much corporate America hates some commentator, it can’t stop you from sending her cryptocurrency.

James D. Miller

21 Aug 2018 · 5 min read

Does Free Speech Need Boundaries to Survive?

It wouldn’t be misleading to say that the greatest threat to free speech today comes from free speech itself.

Wessie du Toit

19 Oct 2017 · 6 min read

China: Zero Tolerance for Academic Freedom

China quickly found itself facing dissatisfaction from those steamrollered by a policy of growth at all costs, in spite of the country’s economic and diplomatic successes.

Emilie Tran

19 Oct 2017 · 5 min read