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The Gatekeepers is yet another prestige Radio 4 series about the internet state we’re in. Hmm. Having just reviewed Jon Ronson’s Things Fell Apart and Marianna Spring’s Why Do You Hate Me?, I was reluctant to listen to another. After a while, these shows start to depress me. They’re always amazingly researched, carefully scripted, scrupulously fair and very interesting, but they’re also, at heart, about the same thing. A modern world where online differences are inflamed and encouraged. Why? Because such “engagement” means money. And those who get the money wriggle out of responsibility when the virtual hate has real life consequences.
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