From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

On this week's show, we test a radical approach to detoxing online life.

I'll get memes, direct message to me, of, like, my face photoshopped into Holocaust gas chambers.

Hey, this is your daily reminder that Buser L leads people to suicide.

The core drivers of violence are shame, isolation, exposure to violence, and an inability to meet one's economic needs.

Speaking face to face with the person who hurt you or who you hurt is difficult, but it can lead to meaningful resolution in a way that punishment alone

cannot. I think I've been going through some re-evaluation about the way that I communicate.

Violence begets violence. If you can just sever that chain, you save, in theory, infinite harm

down the line. Can mediation save the internet from our cruelest tendencies?

It's all coming up.

After this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is away this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

In this episode, a critical look at the assumptions undergirding our notion of justice,

both on social media platforms and the criminal justice system itself.

We'll address the court system first.

With 2.3 million people behind bars, advocates on the right and the left have agreed that

locking people up just isn't making us safer. But that raises the question, what then do we do

to address criminal behavior when it appears? Some criminal justice reformers are pushing a new

approach, one based not on punishment, but on

truth and reconciliation. It's called restorative justice, and when done well, it can help

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