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“... jokes were intended for a group of friends who would understand the context. As Sacco told Jon Ronson, ‘Only an insane person would think that white people don’t get Aids … Living in America puts us in a bit of a bubble when it comes to what is going on in the Third World. I was making fun of that bubble.’ Twitter has been notoriously bad ...”

“... spite: the treatment of Tiziana Cantone is all but indistinguishable from mass trolling. As Jon Ronson reminds us in So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, this pattern is not peculiar to the internet.* Before the phone hacking scandal put it out of business, the News of the World routinely published exposés of the sex lives of otherwise anonymous ...”