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

The Fifth Column

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The Rise and Fall of the Internet

For 40 years, that was the internet that we lived in. And it's only just changing now. Why do you think that is as a result of things that have happened in the real world which are becoming less violent? There are fewer murders. I mean, we have a spike now, but like everything is trending and not to sound like Steven Pinker, but everything's trending in the right direction. But publicly shamed happens before that, before both of those events though. So there's a little element of public shaming and of really working people over. You start the book and if people haven't read it, it's a classic in my mind already because you do such a fantastic

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