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Gossip about the opposite sex is probably the world's oldest social activity. The problem is that the internet lets it happen at industrial scale, and obviously that can be misused or have dangerous unintended consequences.


it also doesn't disappear. Before the internet you could say something, laugh, and move on. It disappeared.

Now if someone says something online it can be read for years and often without context of when it was originally written.




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