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
· 6 min read
Social Media
A collection of 115 posts
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
· 11 min read
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
· 12 min read
Stop Opening Up About Your Mental Health Online
Instagram being #HereForYou? Hahaha, please
Freya India
· 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
· 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
· 11 min read
The Instagram Panopticon
Exhibitionism, voyeurism, and the cycle of judgement.
Ed Smith
· 16 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 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
· 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
· 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
· 9 min read
Twitter is Not the Town Square
Refashioning the private company as a legitimate town square would require more change than we realize.
Angel Eduardo
· 6 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
· 6 min read
Reject the Rules of the Social Media Game
The only winning move is not to play.
Niamh Jiménez
· 20 min read
Stop Feeding Your Brain Junk Food
A simple way to discourage clickbait influencers from producing low-quality content is for the rest of us to stop consuming it.
Gurwinder Bhogal
· 9 min read