Luke Robert Mason is a researcher at Warwick University who created a spambot (or infomorph) using Jon Ronson’s tweets. Ronson felt humiliated by the bot’s presence, afraid that people would think he himself was behind it, so he demanded that Mason take the bot down in a private meeting. But when Mason refused, Ronson published a YouTube video of their encounter and rejoiced as the internet began to tear Mason and his fellow researchers who’d created the spambot apart. Eventually, Mason was “shamed into acquiescence” and took the bot down.
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I won. Within days, the academics took down @Jon_Ronson. They had been shamed into acquiescence. Their public shaming had been like the button that restores factory settings. Something was out of kilter. The community rallied. The balance was redressed.
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Luke Robert Mason Quotes in So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
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I won. Within days, the academics took down @Jon_Ronson. They had been shamed into acquiescence. Their public shaming had been like the button that restores factory settings. Something was out of kilter. The community rallied. The balance was redressed.
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