Everyone looked the same. There were all these 22-year-old kids hunched over their laptops.

Who determines the standards of online speech? The courts and international convention? Nah.

It's a room full of 20-somethings at Google. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.

After six years of the most vile comments,

a man learns to love his internet troll. I came to sort of appreciate his persistence,

and over the years, and this did stretch on for years, came to view what he was doing as a sort

of online performance art. Plus, a film about George Plimpton, whose participatory journalism put him in the ring

against the light heavyweight champion of the world.

And I think it sort of startled Archie Moore, never been in the ring with somebody both

bleeding and weeping at the same time.

And sympathy overwhelmed him.

All that plus my extremely brief country music career after this.

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Brooke Ladstone is out this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

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