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‘Where does the line get drawn?’ Fans baffled as footballer is charged over social media post made NINE years ago when he was 14

Defender Marc Bola, of Championship side Middlesbrough, has been charged with misconduct over the nine-year-old social media post, the English…

3 years ago

Twitter’s ‘Safety Mode’ is just a new way to silence opponents to the tech giant’s woke social justice agenda

Something about Twitter has long irritated me, not so much the platform itself but the smug self-righteousness of a bunch…

3 years ago

China’s crackdown on the ‘spiritual opium’ of gaming is part of a big social revolution pitting collectivism against individualism

The scale of Xi Jinping’s social revolution intensifies every day, and nothing seems to be safe from its reach. To…

3 years ago

Post-Covid, the West needs to reassess how to make social democracy work better

The 2008 banking crisis led citizens in Western democratic countries to massively lose faith in their political systems and their…

3 years ago

Merkel’s alliance falls behind Social Democrats for first time in 16 years, just a month before general elections – poll

The Social Democrats have emerged as the strongest political force in Germany, according to one of the leading market research…

3 years ago

What is the problem with most social media activism? It’s ill-informed, changes nothing and oversimplifies complex issues

Online activism comes in many forms, from symbolic signaling of a position on a crisis or issue, such as changing…

3 years ago

Talibanned? Social media wrangles with accounts deemed ‘terrorist’ as Taliban returns to power in Afghanistan

Facebook, which claims it has blacklisted Taliban-linked groups under its “dangerous organizations policy” for “years” due to US Treasury Department…

3 years ago

Banning American conservatives from social media and not the Taliban proves we don’t know who the bad guys are any more

In the years since 9/11 a political divide emerged within America that widened through the Obama years, continued to expand…

3 years ago

‘F*ck off Piers!’ Morgan attacked by social media users for suggesting Arsenal should abandon signing over old abusive tweet

In addition to reportedly considering an approach for Barcelona's Neto, the Gunners are currently locked in negotiations with Sheffield United's much…

3 years ago

‘Utter woke insanity’: Social media users blast ‘sick’ new Scottish rules that allow FOUR-YEAR OLDS to declare ‘gender identity’

In the 70-page document, issued to schools across the country on Thursday, teachers are instructed not to question students who…

3 years ago