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S1. Ep 5: A Scottish Jewish joke
Episode 17 of 22
A series of strange, unexpected, human stories from the history of the culture wars.
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
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Tue 7 Dec 2021
21:30
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A Scottish Jewish joke
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