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Monica Lewinsky: The price of shame | Talk Video | TED.com

"Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop," says Monica Lewinsky. In 1998, she says, “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.” Today, the kind of online public shaming she went through has become constant — and can turn deadly. In a brave talk, she takes a hard look at our online culture of humiliation, and asks for a different way.

Filmed March 2015 at TED2015
URL: https://getab.li/101l
Language: English

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