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How Long Can The Internet Run on Hate?

Enough

Social media has become a toxic place where the loudest and vilest rule. That’s not what the Internet was supposed to be.

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On Wednesday, the Internet community site Reddit shut down a burgeoning group with the common, explicit goal of hating fat people.

The section, called /r/FatPeopleHate, consisted mostly of screenshots of subscribers’ overweight Facebook friends, their names blurred out but their faces visible, often lamenting that they couldn’t lose weight.

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