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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Politics, Government, Society & Culture, News

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

When you go online the mildest disagreements can spin out of control into real anger, but why is our internet behaviour so bad? And how is this affecting democracy and public discourse? David Babbs, project lead at the campaign group ‘Clean Up The Internet’ and formerly of 38 Degrees, talks to Arthur Snell about why the online environment has become so hostile, the issues posed by anonymity, and how we can clean up our internet behaviour. “Anonymity is subject to a lot of misuse” “Abuse from anonymous accounts has the potential to be even more frightening, you don’t know where that person is lurking” “MPs are victims in this, they’re on the receiving end of a lot of online abuse” Presented by Arthur Snell. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofrenijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.0

confrontation and almost never descend into outright abuse. But you go online and the mildest

1:21.9

disagreement can quickly spin out of control into extreme anger.

1:26.0

And periodically we read stories of people who seem to live normal lives getting on fine with their neighbors,

1:32.0

and yet in their online existence that same person

1:35.2

is issuing death threats or joining a pile on against some vulnerable individual.

1:40.3

So why is online behavior so bad and what effect is this having on democracy and public discourse?

1:47.0

A lot of us probably shrug our shoulders and say, well there's nothing you can do about it, that's the internet for you.

1:52.0

But not everybody

1:53.7

is saying that. David Babs is the project lead of a campaign organization called

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