A Scottish Jewish joke: first shaming for something done online [audio]
BBC Radio 4 - Things Fell Apart, S1. Ep 5: A Scottish Jewish joke

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                    S1. Ep 5: A Scottish Jewish joke
            
            
    
                    
        
        
                            A series of strange, unexpected, human stories from the history of the culture wars.
                        
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                            This is the story of the very first person to be publicly shamed because of something they did online. It’s 1988, the internet exists only in its most nascent form, and a software designer, Brad Templeton, uploads onto a message board a joke in poor taste. How the architects of the emerging internet respond to the joke will create a set of rules that the rest of us have lived under ever since…
                            Written and presented by Jon RonsonProduced by Sarah ShebbeareAssistant Producer Sam PeachOriginal music by Phil Channell
                        
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