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Privacy is not impunity

Originally published April 2023. The argument hasn't changed. The platforms have only made it more urgent.Every community has behaviour that is legal but corrosive: the committee member who treats the organisation's money as their own, the volunteer who bullies newcomers until they leave, the member who harasses others and dares anyone to prove it. No…
The thin veil of civilisation

First published in The Canberra Times, June 2000. Twenty-five years on, the decline it describes has only accelerated, and the platforms we now live on have made it worse. Public Morality? Basketball riots in Los Angeles, football riots in Belgium. The weekend seemed to be full of mob violence, destruction and thuggery. Grown men on…
The polis and the platform

Independence and community aren’t opposites. The Greeks knew it, and so does anyone who has run a club. Online, we’ve forgotten it, and handed our communities to masters.