This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s big cabinet shuffle this week. Plus, talk about Nate Hochman, the up-and-coming American conservative thinker who was fired from the Ron DeSantis campaign, and Twitter’s rebrand.
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the Liberal government’s impending cabinet shuffle. Plus, the recent trend of Big Tech companies threatening to get tough with countries that try to regulate them. Is this an ominous sign for the future?
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the government’s continuing battle with Meta. Plus, the company’s new Twitter competitor Threads has arrived. Is this the beginning of the end for Twitter?
French laws barring children from social media passed with unanimous support in the National Assembly, while here in Canada, not a single party is even proposing to protect children from Big Tech’s predations.
This special presentation of Hub Dialogues features The Hub’s executive director Rudyard Griffiths in conversation with independent U.S. journalist Matt Taibbi about the Twitter Files, the state and future of Twitter, mainstream media, and the future of democracy in the upcoming 2024 U.S. presidential elections.
Why, given that the ChiComs are betting that teenage want is stronger than parental will, doesn’t Trudeau give all Canadian parents a similar excuse to do the right thing by banning the app outright, or at least making it inaccessible to children?
Silicon Valley’s biggest stars are starting to dim. Rather than coast into the future, they seem hellbent on making our lives much more annoying for the sake of insisting they’re still innovative.
The fact is there are a lot of ignorant people out there. But is anti-Semitism—never mind anti-anything else—such a dire problem in Canada today? Relatively speaking, we are an tolerant country open to diversity, and we should celebrate that fact.
There seems to be a temptation inherent in contrarianism that, if indulged, can produce a mental inversion that leaves you at odds not just with your society but with reality itself. Anyone whose job involves attracting attention can fall prey to this weakness.
Two decades into the social media revolution, the idealized promises of the technology have been soured by the realities of addiction, misuse, and misinformation. Transparency controls and strict regulation of foreign actors will be key to mitigating the platforms’ worst effects.
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