How a Korean Celebrity Scandal Predicted Online Led Harassment Campaigns

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The internet encourages the best and absolute worst of human behavior. Online led hate campaigns and conspiracy theories are often more than just frivolous distractions. They can ruin lives. In the U.S., I think the Gamergate movement from 2015 and 2016 opened a lot of people’s eyes to what was brewing under the surface of some of the darker places online. If Gamergate didn’t, then Qanon certainly did. But, across the Pacific Ocean, the people of Korea had a pretty good idea of how the internet can destroy lives long before it became a topic of think pieces in America.

That is the subject of the excellent Podcast, Authentic, a new show from VICE that focuses on the life of the Korean rapper Tablo and how the internet turned it upside down. With us today is its host and producer, Dexter Thomas.

Authentic is available on iTunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio and pretty much every other podcast platform.

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0:00.0	It's got the code it's going to launch
0:08.0	It's a unit system
0:12.3	I know this
0:13.9	It's how all the files of the whole park
0:16.6	It tells you everything
0:18.0	Sir he's uploading the virus
0:20.7	Eagle one the package is being delivered Hello It tells her everything. Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:23.5	The Eagle One, the package is being delivered.
0:26.0	Hello out there in cyberspace.
0:30.3	The internet encourages the best and absolute worst of human behavior.
0:35.1	Online-led hate campaigns and conspiracy theories are often more than just frivolous distractions.
0:36.8	They can ruin lives.
0:38.0	In the U.S., I think the Gamer Gate movement from 2015 to 2016 opened a lot of people's eyes to what was brewing
0:42.6	under the surface of some of the darker places online. And if that didn't, then Q&ONN certainly did.
0:48.6	But across the Pacific Ocean, the people of Korea had a pretty good idea of how the internet
0:53.3	can destroy lives long before it became the topic of think pieces in America.
0:57.5	That is the subject of the excellent podcast, Authentic, a new show from Vice that focuses on the life of Korean rapper Tablo and how the internet turned it upside down.
1:09.1	And with us today to talk about it is host and producer Dexter Thomas.
1:15.0	I'm Matthew Golt.
1:16.6	Sorry.
1:18.0	That's not good.
1:18.6	My bed.
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