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Ghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish • 6 months ago

Silent but Deadly: I met some of my closest friends through multiplayer games. Then a strange happening turned everyone (literally) speechless.

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Silent but Deadly: I met some of my closest friends through multiplayer games. Then a strange happening turned everyone (literally) speechless.

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Ghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish • 6 months ago

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cross-posted to:
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It Used to Be One of the Main Ways Men Talked to Each Other. Then Everyone Went Silent.

I met some of my closest friends through multiplayer games. Then a strange happening turned everyone (literally) speechless.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17349586

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So “strange happening” = people not wanting to listen to racist, sexist etc abuse from strangers on the internet? Very strange, indeed!
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  The article covers that very thing.

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