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The Fifth Column

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The First Person to Create a Joke That Was Publicly Shamed

Brad Templeton is the first person ever to be publicly shamed because of something they did on the internet. And he told a joke that was deemed anti-Semitic and anti-Scottish. He had like a joke of the day that would order that his computer would automatically send out each day onto usen it. The upshot of the joke is Jews and Scots don't want to pay for dinner.

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