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The Return of Right-Wing Cancel Culture

It is dispiriting to watch some of the staunchest critics of woke politics engaging in their own brand of cancel culture.

Josh Allan

25 Jul 2024 · 6 min read

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The Digital Mirror of Narcissus

Technology steers my life along tracks chosen for my digital double, not for me. But this proxy personalisation wouldn’t work at all if I didn’t play my part.

Timandra Harkness

23 May 2024 · 11 min read

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Stifling Free Speech Online: Australia’s Misinformation Bill

Every censorship regime in history has claimed to be protecting the public. But no regime can have prior knowledge of what is true or good. It can only know what the approved narratives are.

Toadworrier

23 Apr 2024 · 12 min read

Stop Opening Up About Your Mental Health Online

Instagram being #HereForYou? Hahaha, please

Freya India

8 Feb 2024 · 7 min read

The Case Against Content Moderation

Aggressive content moderation is presented as a necessary response to hate speech and misinformation—but it's more like a moral panic.

Sam Kahn

2 Feb 2024 · 15 min read

Hamas Cheerleaders Are All Over Instagram

Since 10/7, young social-media users have been inundated with memes that present terrorists as social justice champions.

Christina Buttons

16 Nov 2023 · 11 min read

Little Liliths

Contemporary feminist thought is correct to identify the male gaze as the default way of seeing, but has largely overlooked the fact that the gaze places power squarely in the hands of women, not men.

Marilyn Simon

12 May 2023 · 12 min read

I’m Loving Substack’s New ‘Notes’ Service. But Can the Good Times Last?

Much as Substack originally supplied writers with a turnkey newsletter operation, Notes provides us with a turnkey form of community-building.

Jonathan Kay

18 Apr 2023 · 8 min read

Our New, Subscription-Based World

Like Substack, Quillette is hoping to provide readers with more engagement, and less anger.

The Quillette Editorial Board

10 Apr 2023 · 8 min read

Ending Discrimination by Twitter

Gender critical feminists are among those who have been excluded from Twitter for years. The time is right for a correction.

Holly Lawford-Smith

28 Nov 2022 · 9 min read

Forget Elon Musk. Maybe the Problem with Twitter Is You

No technical fix can remove the stress that comes with putting your opinions out into the world. And if you can’t handle that stress, you need to log off.

Jonathan Kay

4 Nov 2022 · 6 min read