Andrey Mir suggests that the evolution of digital media makes stricter regulation of online behaviour not only feasible but inevitable. He puts forward a theory of an evolving digital tradition, from 'Web 1.0' to 'Web 5.0', the final iteration being a multi-platform social credit system.

Andrey Mir argues that feminism is a media effect: as tools, print, typewriters, appliances, war, electronics and digital networks displaced bodily labour, sex-based social roles lost their old material foundation. Extracts from his 2025 book, 'The Digital Reversal'.