The Problem With Rush Limbaugh Isn’t The Word “Slut”
You’re familiar with the recent firestorm surrounding Rush Limbaugh, right? The one about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, who spoke to Democratic Representatives about birth control and was...
View ArticleAnonymity On The World Wide Web Is Worth Protecting
This past summer Google rolled out a new commenting policy that tried to convince Youtube users to post comments under their real names. The ostensible goal was to clean up the Youtube comment...
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Does Google Autocomplete Really Reveal Sexism?
U.N. Women recently started an ad campaign using Google’s autocomplete feature to demonstrate the pervasiveness of sexism worldwide. The campaign was covered in AdWeek, which is where I think most...
View ArticleOutrage, Kindness, and the Benefit of the Doubt
On Twitter we are often misunderstood to be an extreme stereotype of whatever view we’re expressing. A person who says Corsi is one useful way to evaluate hockey players gets painted as someone who...
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