Hey, quick warning. This episode has descriptions of sexual assault and violence. If that's not

something you want to hear, you should just give it.

From Gimla, this is Repio. I'm PJ vote.

It always feels like kind of a cop out to me when people say the internet sucks. The internet's

bad. Because while I completely agree, it's absurd that the same place we go for jokes and news

is also the place where we have to wade through death threats and racism and endless endless

bickering. But it always feels kind of weird to blame that on the internet. Those are the

people who we know and see every day behaving the way they want to behave on as a cover

of darkness. It's a mirror. It's our responsibility. That's what I've always believed. But what

if that wasn't true? What if you found out that the internet was bad? Not because of

the people on it, but because powerful people were designing it to be that way. What if you

found out I was part of somebody's plan? This is a story about a person who met the people

behind the plan. Her name's Andrea Noel and she's an American reporter who covers Mexico.

I was based in Mexico City for several years and now I float between the border region

and Mexico City. I go back and forth. And what do you what what do you usually cover?

I cover politics, corruption, drug war. I'm kind of on the drugbeat. So the thing that

happened to Andrea, it actually happened on her day off. She was taking a walk in

Kandessa, her neighborhood in Mexico City. I remember very vividly that I was walking

down the street, kicking myself and just thinking, you know, what have I been doing for

the last six months? Why haven't I been leaving the house and walking around? It's, you

know, walking by the park and everything's beautiful and people are laughing and it's

a great day. And I was literally having that thought. When out of nowhere, she feels a

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