PewDiePie's Battle for the Soul of the Internet
A small group of journalists have falsely smeared the world's top YouTuber as a Nazi sympathizer.
Allen Farrington
· 9 min read
Social Media
A collection of 123 posts
Our Fast Food Social Media Diet
In this age of omnipresent social media, our greatest challenge may be figuring out how to take advantage of the benefits of the technology that can connect us to each other without suffering serious social costs.
Clay Routledge
· 7 min read
Notes from the Eye of a State-Sponsored Social Media Storm
The deliberate downplaying of dissent for both Persian and English language audiences is indicative of an attempt to fool Iranians back into submission at a time when the regime has never been more anxious about its survival.
Mariam Memarsadeghi
· 9 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Alex Jones Was Victimised by One Oligopoly — But Perpetuated Another
We must be the protectors of our own free speech, and habitually speak out not just against the tech giants, but also against populist gurus.
Gurwinder Bhogal
· 9 min read
Narrow Roads of Bozo Land — How We Came to Be Governed by Online Mobs
Visionaries may be moody, obsessive loners but without them to provide a good idea in the first place, implementers end up working diligently to implement a faulty vision, like clockwork toys set off in the wrong direction.
Adam Perkins
· 10 min read
Is It Time to Regulate Social Media?
We would not tolerate a phone company cutting off somebody’s service because of the words they used in their conversations.
Matthew Mott
· 8 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
· 13 min read
I Sold My Soul on Twitter — Now I'm Trying to Win It Back
All I cared about was getting to bask in the negative energy of someone else’s crappy life, so that I didn’t have to confront my own.
Jamie Kilstein
· 8 min read
Taming the Lizard Brain
The history of consumerism can be seen be as the growing sophistication to tie our primitive instincts to consumption behaviours.
Tanveer Ahmed
· 6 min read
A Closer Look at Anti-White Rhetoric
While affirming the ubiquity of anti-white rhetoric in progressive communities, Salam suggested it’s driven by motives beyond the simple highlighting of power structures.
Uri Harris
· 10 min read
Nobody Should Listen to Twitter Mobs
Vox characterized the practice of dredging up tweets and trying to get people fired over them an “alt right” tactic.
Daniel Friedman
· 8 min read
My Social Media Suicide Note
“There’s no better time than now to delete.” (Position this one against a background of a man in canoe swimming away to a proxy of freedom.)
JD Jagiello
· 9 min read
Canada's Twitter Mobs and Left-Wing Hypocrisy
These are all cases of self-identified leftists excommunicating other leftists—silencing those who fail to heed the maximalist demands of trans activists.
Meghan Murphy
· 10 min read
Social Media — The Case for Deactivation
Technologically speaking, social media could steer their users’ hijacked minds towards the known beneficial functions and away from the harmful ones.
Jonathan Reid Surovell
· 12 min read