Reasonable doubt: How society got its rules wrong
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Is Social Media Making Civil Discourse Harder?
I see women castigated all the time on it just merely for being alive. Does social media make things worse? Is the discourse harder to rationalise, to be reasonable about or to be unreasonable about? Where are we with that, do you think? I try really hard not to give into what we might call a contemporary moral panic around social media. It's given a platform to those who historically have been deliberately shut out of gate kept away from positions where their voice could actually be heard. So it's both good and bad. But I suppose what I'm arguing in this book is that all of these things, whether it's manners and civility and the social contract, social media,
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