Opinion
Mike Boudet returns to Sword and Scale on July 4, showing creators how to deal with online outrage mobs
Boudet left the show in March after a brigading online mob pressured the podcast network Wondery to part ways with Sword and Scale.
YouTube’s handling of the VoxAdpocalypse is a taste of the way Google will treat Stadia gamers
Stadia’s “always online” way of playing, puts Google in charge of who gets to play.
For YouTubers whose livelihoods are at stake due to a problem with their channel, their best chance of YouTube even bothering to acknowledge them is, for some reason, on Twitter
If you don’t have many Twitter followers, you’re probably out of luck.
Is “woke” media collapsing? Vox Media staff demand higher wages from the already-struggling company
Vox’s staff are holding the company hostage at a time when analysts are saying Vox could be gone within a year.
A new study dramatically suggests Twitter “erodes your intelligence”
Twitter gets blamed for being “a tool of misinformation and hate”.
On platforms, publishers, and censorship
Social media platforms will have to decide which lane they’re in.
Journalists used to champion free speech. Now they try to suppress it
Journalists are fast becoming the number one group censoring speech online.
Theresa May’s leadership significantly damaged the UK’s digital rights and freedoms
Theresa May’s legacy is bad for more than her failing to get the UK out of the EU.
Google’s anti-conservative culture has been confirmed multiple times by their own staff
Google’s own staff are starting to come out of the woodwork and comment on Google’s biased internal culture.
‘You Can’t Watch This’ shows the human side of what it’s like to be exiled from public discourse
An interesting look at some of the internet’s most censored individuals.
The news media hate the comments section as it stops them from being in control of the narrative
The media hate being called out on their false reporting, so they just switch the comments off.
Why we need to protect the online gig economy from those that want to destroy it
Crazy Bernie’s policies could destroy whole industries.