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"html": "A Platform for Trolls\n\n\n\u201cSensible people \u2014 people who care about things like acceptance and inclusion \u2014 were complaining about Katy Hopkins being on the show. They talked about how they weren\u2019t going to watch the show, and everyone inside the same echo chamber of opinions repeated the same thing, over and over again. Meanwhile, the people who were insulated from the uproar, the people who don\u2019t know who Katy is (or worse, the people that agree with her) just watched the show anyway. Along with, I\u2019ll bet, a lot of the people who said they wouldn\u2019t. And then come the complaints to RT\u00c9 and the cycle continues.\u201d Yep, I was part of that echo chamber, I\u2019ll own that. It still rankles that RT\u00c9\u00a0refused to entertain complaints before the programme, as if the prospect of sheer wrongness doesn\u2019t count, but RATINGS.\n",
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