Turning Hate Into Humor

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

An elite unit of trolls is engaged in an existential battle against hate speech on the internet. This is their story.

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0:37.3	Quick heads up. It's not like we treat you guys with kid gloves by any stretch of the imagination.
0:42.6	We do put swears into our podcast episodes for sure, but this episode has a little extra
0:48.4	explicit language in it and it deals with some pretty adult subjects. So fair morning.
0:54.2	Emily, do you remember the very beginning of time?
0:58.6	No, I don't.
1:00.5	No, the popularizing of the internet.
1:03.8	It was a time of big dreams of wide-eyed hope, a time of television anchors just talking about stuff
1:09.2	that they didn't know very much about.
1:10.9	That little mark with the A and then the ring around it?
1:10.9	At.
1:14.0	See, that's what I said.
1:14.6	Mm-hmm.
1:15.6	Um, Katie said she thought it was about.
1:16.6	Yeah.
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