Jon Ronson tells the story of Brad Templeton, the first person to ever be shamed online | BBC Sounds

It’s 1988, the internet exists only in its earliest 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…
Jon Ronson tells the story of the very first person to be publicly shamed because of something they did online.
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Jon Ronson tells the story of Brad Templeton, the first person to ever be shamed online | BBC Sounds
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