The Culture I Grew Up In: and why Elon Musk has censored me for it

What was it like growing up in Britain, 20 years ago?

“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.”

- Charles Mackay

So as you probably know, I went viral a few days ago for writing about my childhood in the UK. I then went even more viral, ironically, when a day later, Elon Musk’s X has listed my thread as ‘unavailable’ and censored my entire account. Streisand Effect. If you go to my account now, all my posts are still listed as ‘unavailable’. Nope: it didn’t break any Twitter rules. No nudity, no racist language, not even a single swear word. It also wasn’t AI flagging something incorrectly about my account: accounts like Andrew Tate and the army of accounts sending me rape threats and misogynistic, racist, paedophilic abuse are up and running, despite thousands of reports. Why, then? Well, it’s pretty simple in my opinion.

People like Elon Musk don’t want you to know what happened to me growing up in the UK. It’s inconvenient. It is uncomfortable. It isn’t part of their agenda. It doesn’t advance what the far-white-right want. Worst of all, it could trigger other women like me to remember what happened to them. Remember what the white men did when they…