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Mr Brown, now 24, dropped out of college and spent the following years at home - gaming, in chat rooms and reading about politics.
He became almost entirely immersed in an online world of "echo chambers" where he felt the pull of extremism and cybercrime.
Mr Brown, from Ashton, Cornwall, says he became increasingly "eccentric" and eventually lost touch with reality.
"I can count the number of times I went out in a seven-year period on both of my hands," he says.
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He finally decided to seek help and ended up taking part in the Real Ideas Organisation's (RIO) Game Changer programme, which aims to encourage young people to develop skills and overcome any issues they face before getting them into work, education or training.
7 years. Not bad. Can anyone beat that?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by crafoo on Saturday November 10 2018, @05:27PM (1 child)
More practically, strip corporations of the ability to hold or buy patents and copyrights. They should stay with their original creators. Both are artificial monopolies, and being able to transfer them only means we allow monopolies to be transferred, traded, and accumulated by psychotic MBAs, concentrating wealth and giving power to those that don't actually create new art or ideas. It's perverse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @06:08PM
The problem with patents/copyrights is that they are a governmental construct rather than a free-market contractual construct—the deep pockets can just purchase the violent coercion of the State, and thereby swoop in to change the rules of the game at the last moment.
You can't expect freedom to be protected by an organization that is explicitly anti-freedom. That's insane.