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Tim Black
Asking a teenager to do an adult’s job
The outrage over sweary teen-twitterer Paris Jones tells us far more about the crisis of adulthood than uncouth yoof.
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| Monday 28 January 2013 |
Theresa Clifford
The tragedy of the creative commons
Portraying Aaron Swartz as a victim of government bullying will not help the cause of internet freedom.
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| Thursday 13 December 2012 |
Luke Gittos
We’re no longer citizens, we’re suspects
The new Communications Data Bill continues the trend away from privacy to giving the state full access to our private lives.
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| Tuesday 23 October 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
The Twittermob is watching you, too
The twitch-hunt of far-right nutjob Nick Griffin over one daft tweet has frightening implications for us all.
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| Friday 7 September 2012 |
Tim Black
The staggeringly pretentious footballer
The Secret Footballer reveals more about today’s elite loathing of football players and fans than it does the dark reality of the beautiful game.
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| Tuesday 28 August 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Retweeting: the new 999
The arrest of a man for tweeting at footballer Carlton Cole shows the Twittersphere has become a hive of grasses.
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| Wednesday 4 July 2012 |
Tim Black
A tale of two
Twitter trials
To be consistently liberal, the Twitterati should defend drunken racists as well as airport jokers.
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| Monday 11 June 2012 |
Theresa Clifford
Zuckerberg didn’t
kill privacy
It’s easy to blame Facebook for our reveal-all culture. The harder question is: why do we willingly reveal so much?
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| Wednesday 9 May 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Beware the celebrity
troll-hunters
Thin-skinned celebs whining about being bullied by internet ‘trolls’ pave the way for online censorship.
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| Thursday 5 April 2012 |
Tim Black
Why the hate for Samantha Brick?
She may have written a deluded article about being drop-dead gorgeous, but does that really deserve the twittered spleen?
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| Wednesday 28 March 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
...but tweets will never hurt me
The imprisonment of a UK student for posting ‘aggravating’ tweets about an ill footballer is no LOL matter.
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| Thursday 22 March 2012 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Why clicktivism now makes us switch off
President Obama is better than most politicians at exploiting social media, but even he can fall victim to mocking memes.
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| Thursday 15 March 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Free speech on Facebook? Think again
The prosecution of a teenager for sounding off about British soldiers on Facebook should be of concern to us all.
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| Wednesday 15 February 2012 |
Norman Lewis
Facebook valuation: $100 billion for what?
Yes, if FB were a country it would be the third largest. It would also be the most unproductive country ever.
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| Friday 13 May 2011 |
Duleep Allirajah
The PR-free glory of the footballers’ twitterverse
Thanks to Twitter, footballers and fans are finally getting up close and occasionally personal. But how long will it last?
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| Monday 31 January 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Facebook does not make you mentally ill
Some experts now claim that social networking is turning us into a nation of nutters. It’s therapeutic drivel.
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| Tuesday 18 January 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Tunisians don’t need advice from the Twittering classes
The inspiring uprising springs from people’s aspiration for real freedom, not from Western Wikileakers revealing ‘the truth’ to Africans.
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| Wednesday 5 January 2011 |
Mick Hume
Can the police solve a murder on Facebook?
The media circus surrounding the Joanna Yeates case reveals what can happen when a murder inquiry gets mixed up with a PR campaign.
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| Monday 18 October 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Facebook: the heart in a heartless world
David Fincher’s brilliant The Social Network teases out what is driving the FB juggernaut: our need for narrative.
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| Wednesday 14 April 2010 |
Neil Davenport
What this Twitterstorm reveals about Labour
Stuart MacLennan’s real crime was to spout Labour’s prejudices against chavs and old people in an uncouth way.
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