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356 - UNLOCKED - Things Fell Apart: A Conversation with Jon Ronson

The Fifth Column

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The Stanford Joke

November 9th is one of the most momentous days in German history. And so this joke goes out and it enrages one person in particular. He takes offense and co-ops a local journalist in Waterloo, Canada,. Gets the joke, gets hit, gets the University of Waterloo who were hosting his comedy site to shut him down. But he also says publicly, or maybe it's an email with us or a communication with his roommate that we have to find out what his company does and target the company. So straight away they were looking to get his livelihood. For this joke. It feels to me like... I mean, you can't stop the machine. The machine must do

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