Why You Can’t Argue With Antisemitic Trolls
The impossible challenge of piercing a special kind of darkness.
Social Media
Social Media Is Not Like Tobacco
Although it is reasonable to age-gate activities such as smoking, drinking and driving, to compare such restrictions to social media age restrictions is a false equivalency driven by far more insidious intentions.
A Regulator’s Impulse and Banning Social Media
Hasten slowly on social media restrictions.
Why I Won’t Change My Profile Pic Over the Train Crash
A railway driver is dead. A friend of mine is recovering from multiple broken bones. Other staff have been through something that may stay with them for years. These are the things that matter to me. The colour of a profile picture doesn’t. Neither does the performance of grief on social media.
The State’s Hunger To Govern the Internet
Why this should worry us more than the platforms themselves.
I Think the Benefits Outweigh the Costs
The government will be making a mistake by trying to ban people my age from platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. We’re big boys, prime minister. We can navigate the perils of the online world without your help.
I’m Making Changes to the Way That I Communicate With You
What happened to Yifat is a warning. I’m not backing away from the work, but I am going to be much more deliberate about protecting the connection that I have with those who want to keep reading it.
Your Child’s Brain Is the Product
TikTok’s own engineers admit it, so why shouldn’t they be liable for the damage?
Is There Hope for Democracy?
A culture that has progressively replaced shared obligation with individual entitlement has eroded the sense of collective responsibility, without which self-governance is merely a slogan.
E-Karen Tries the Principal Skinner Approach
She hasn’t failed: it’s everyone else’s fault.