by David Thunder, The Freedom Blog. Re-published with permission.
The acquisition of Twitter by entrepreneur and business magnate Elon Musk for the handsome sum of $44 billion will almost certainly have far-reaching consequences for the way the global public sphere…TNE Podcast: Abir Ballan interviewed by Jeffrey Peel
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Jihadi John created online censorship
It’s unclear how far Elon Musk’s pledge to restore free speech to Twitter will go; it wasn’t long ago that you could easily stumble upon entire ecosystems of online jihadis and their fanboys on the site. As one surrealist Twitter …
You can’t police offence
In virtue of my heretically archaic views about biology and the importance of women’s rights, I’m the target of quite a lot of rude online behaviour. The other day, for instance, I learnt I was lucky I hadn’t been hanged …
Sunday Wire: ‘Truth in a Time of Great Deceit’ with guest Nick Hudson and more
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How to Get Around the Digital Iron Curtain – #SolutionsWatch
As the battle lines are drawn in the new cold war, a digital iron curtain is descending across the internet. Governments are increasingly cracking down on the net and attempting to limit what websites you can access. Today James walks …
The fictional world of trans activism
When people say things like “transwomen are women”, “transmen are men”, and “nonbinary people are neither women nor men”, what do they mean? In my book Material Girls, I suggested that many of them are immersed in a fiction.
Getting …
The myth of online misinformation
Just before the Russian invasion of Ukraine consumed the media, New York Times columnist Jay Caspian Kang and Substacker Matthew Yglesias published near-simultaneous critiques of the notions of “disinformation” and “misinformation”. This convergence among prominent liberals was significant. These and …
Thread by Nick Hudson @NickHudsonCT March 14, 2022
The story of PANDA’s first run-in with YouTube censorship is an interesting one.
In late 2020, our weekly Open Science meeting considered the spatial distribution of earth cases and deaths in the UK counties. We concluded that the data was …
Episode 414 – The Future of Censorship
Welcome to The . . . The . . . Corbert Report? Hosted by, uhhhh . . . James? CorBETT? I’m filling in for today. I’d send you to his website but I forget what that is. Oh, I know! …
How sensitivity readers corrupt literature
What did the sensitivity readers say? And did I care? Of all the aspects of the recent attempt to cancel my work, the one that seems to fascinate most people is the moment when my publishers sent my Orwell Prize-winning …
Why Twitter is so awful
When I began writing for UnHerd, I was a nobody with an anonymous Twitter account. That’s less the case now, which is nice in many ways. But there’s a lovely facelessness, and freedom to reinvent yourself, that I miss about …
Raquel Rosario Sánchez won’t be silenced
Raquel Rosario Sánchez should be graduating this month with a PhD from one of the UK’s most prestigious universities. Instead, she will be in court, suing the University of Bristol for allegedly failing to protect her from bullying and harassment.…
We need to talk about the vaccines
Last week, a group of scientists, doctors, and academics published an open letter calling on Spotify “to take action against the mass-misinformation events which continue to occur on its platform”. Specifically, they were objecting to two recent episodes of Joe …
Inside the Tory trans civil war
During Lisa Townsend’s campaign to become Surrey’s Police and Crime Commissioner last year, the subject that most frequently came up on the doorstep wasn’t gang crime, burglaries, or car theft. It was Stonewall, and the lobby group’s influence on policing …
