Sheep and Mirrors: On Being Social
What is it about other people that bestows such joy, such comfort, such indispensable meaning on our lives?
Emma Wilkins
· 13 min read
Social Media
A collection of 113 posts
Facebook Already Controls Our Information. Don’t Let It Control Our Commerce
But while other cryptocurrencies can serve to increase our personal freedom and privacy, Libra, which is scheduled for launch in 2020, likely would have the opposite effect.
Nadim Kobeissi
· 7 min read
Knitting's Infinity War, Part III: Showdown at Yarningham
The post brought out the worst of the knitting world’s anti-racism mobs
Kathrine Jebsen Moore
· 9 min read
Culture War Churn and the YouTube Rabbit-Hole
The YouTube-rabbit-hole phenomenon will undoubtedly continue to radicalize certain individuals. But give it time, let the churn machine keep churning.
Peter Clarke
· 7 min read
Deplatforming Won't Work
An even more fundamental reason why social media companies shouldn’t try to suppress controversial ideas is that they are very bad at determining who and what is wrong or dangerous.
Nathan Cofnas
· 6 min read
How Free Speech Dies Online
Political speech is the most important category of speech and it is the first category of speech authoritarians will seek to constrain as they consolidate power.
Daniel Friedman
· 14 min read
What Do the Oligarchs Have in Mind for Us?
What has not been discussed nearly as much is the end game of the oligarchs.
Joel Kotkin
· 10 min read
A Black Eye for the Columbia Journalism Review
Essays attacking the left- or right-wing bias of this or that media outlet are, of course, old hat in my business.
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read
Happiness and Academic Malpractice
Dolan writes very clearly—an unusual attribute for an academic—and brings a fresh approach to the study of happiness.
Nicholas Wolfinger
· 7 min read
Instagram's Diversity Wars Revisited
They threaten the businesses and livelihoods and professional reputations of good people struggling to navigate a dense web of ideological trip-wires.
Kathrine Jebsen Moore
· 9 min read
Against Big Tech Viewpoint Discrimination
Some might claim that electric power is far more of a necessity that social media access.
James D. Miller
· 4 min read
Watching My Own Excommunication—on a Facebook Video
The behavior on display in that video didn’t originate in a place of reason, but rather the realm of spiritual passions.
Sky Gilbert
· 11 min read
A Single Global Standard for Internet Content Regulation Is a Recipe for Censorship
If we are to realize Zuckerberg´s idea of an internet that is “safe” from “harmful” content, we will have to choose which groups get to enjoy a digital safe space.
Jacob Mchangama
· 13 min read
The Moral Panic Behind Internet Regulation
This will make the internet a much less free place to speak compared to Speakers’ Corner at Hyde Park—the place which is supposed to represent Britain’s commitment to free speech.
Matthew Lesh
· 14 min read
Why I'm Suing Twitter
Twitter is violating its own stated rules, and it is doing so as a means to target specific individuals for ideological reasons.
Meghan Murphy
· 10 min read