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S1. Ep 5: A Scottish Jewish joke

S1. Ep 5: A Scottish Jewish joke

Things Fell Apart vor 4 Jahren

Strange tales from the culture wars by Jon Ronson.

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This is the story of the very first person to be publicly shamed
because of something they did online. It’s 1988, the internet
exists only in its most nascent form, and a software designer,
Brad Templeton, uploads onto a message board a joke in poor
taste. How the architects of the emerging internet respond to the
joke will create a set of rules that the rest of us have lived
under ever since…

Written and presented by Jon Ronson Produced by Sarah Shebbeare
Assistant Producer Sam Peach Original music by Phil Channell