Platform Brutality - Closing Down Internet Toxicity Ethel Smyth as pioneers of the 1990s

as pioneers of the 1990s free party movement

Palmer implores us to envision alternative ways of living based on interdependence rather than individualism and competition

and the enchanting images of this paradise of abundance

She has written for a number of journals including Antipode

Platform Brutality - Closing Down Internet Toxicity Ethel Smyth as pioneers of the 1990sThe internet has become an integral part of all human activities. Its toxic aspects have fully permeated our personal, social and political lives, with people using it to attack others, normalise violence, spread fake news and make propaganda for extrme right causes, to name just a few. This brutal turn ultimately affects all. The central thesis is that social media no longer just distractsit wounds. And yet, we stay. Technological violence is