The Internet's First Main Character? | The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks
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The Internet's Main Character
As the project continued, I expanded the show. No longer only speaking to my own detractors, I stepped into the moderator role and connected strangers to each other. Over and over again, it was apparent that my guests had forgotten that an actual human was going to see their message or comment because the internet makes it particularly easy to forget that we're interacting with actual human people. We're dehumanized online and this dehumanization makes it much harder to empathize with each other and therefore easier to hate each other and be hated in return.
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