The headlines this week are about Facebook’s “suppression” or “censorship” of conservative news. As Snopes points out, there are two separate things that former employees are (anonymously) accusing Facebook of: The first is the suppression of conservative news topics which, if true, is indeed troubling. If there’s breaking news about say, Ted Cruz, and a Facebook […]
Author: Jillian
I was sorely tempted to call this post “I’m a free speech advocate, everyone is an idiot.” After reading it, you’ll understand why, though ultimately that sentence is more of a reflection of my mood at the moment than of what’s going on. What’s going on, you see, is that suddenly, full-grown adults seem confused […]
This piece was originally published as Waffen und Brüste: Kultureller Imperialismus und die Regulierung von Sprache auf kommerziellen Plattformen in the Jahrbuch Netzpolitik 2014. I am republishing it today because I was looking for it as a reference and realized it wasn’t available in English. When celebrity comedienne Chelsea Handler wanted to make a statement […]