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.
A collection of 111 posts
Aggressive content moderation is presented as a necessary response to hate speech and misinformation—but it's more like a moral panic.
Since 10/7, young social-media users have been inundated with memes that present terrorists as social justice champions.
Exhibitionism, voyeurism, and the cycle of judgement.
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.
Much as Substack originally supplied writers with a turnkey newsletter operation, Notes provides us with a turnkey form of community-building.
Like Substack, Quillette is hoping to provide readers with more engagement, and less anger.
Gender critical feminists are among those who have been excluded from Twitter for years. The time is right for a correction.
Refashioning the private company as a legitimate town square would require more change than we realize.
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.
The only winning move is not to play.
A simple way to discourage clickbait influencers from producing low-quality content is for the rest of us to stop consuming it.
They are a doorway into stupidity and misery.
I made pretty pictures that helped keep people enraged and mobilized. Then I asked myself: ‘Why am I doing this?‘
Twitter’s current policy on content isn’t one dimensional: It serves up both false positives and false negatives—wrongly banning certain accounts for thoughtcrimes while permitting others to continue on the platform despite engaging in grotesquely abusive behavior.
Reports that Twitter has accepted Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company for $54.20 a share have provoked much handwringing about his attitudes to free speech, especially with respect to possible changes in the social media platform’s moderation policies. So far, the discussion has been a largely