#18 Silence And Respect

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In 2012, a woman named Lindsey Stone posted a picture she took as a joke to her Facebook page. A month later, she was under attack from all corners of the internet, out of a job, hounded by the press. The internet had targeted her for a public shaming. Jon Ronson, journalist and author of the new book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed", walks us through Lindsey's story and introduces us to the sometimes sketchy world of online reputation management. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Before we get started, a quick warning that this episode has some pretty disturbing language
0:03.3	in it.
0:04.3	Alright, let's go.
0:09.5	From Gimlet, this is ReplyAll.
0:11.5	Show about the internet.
0:12.5	I'm Alex Goldman.
0:19.0	When did you first see the John Ronson spam button?
0:21.4	Well I accidentally typed my name into Google and covered this at the John Ronson with
0:28.7	my face and my name, John Undesco Ronson on Twitter.
0:33.8	And as I stared and surprised at its timeline, tweeted,
0:38.1	Going home, got to get the recipe of a huge plate of
0:41.2	garana and muscle in a bap with mayonnaise, hashtag yummy.
0:48.9	So I was like, who are you?
0:52.5	And it was like watching SignFeld with love a delicious sour cream kebab with
0:58.3	chives, hashtag foodie.
1:01.2	John Ronson is a journalist, filmmaker, documentarian, he wrote a movie, he's written a couple
1:05.8	of books that were bestsellers.
1:07.4	He's not Kardashian famous, but people know who he is.
1:10.6	And people follow him on Twitter.
1:12.4	And now there was this Twitter bot impersonating him, saying things like,
1:16.6	I am dreaming something about time and cock.
1:22.1	So and it was being followed by people that I knew from real life, who was only wondering
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