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posted by martyb on Saturday November 10 2018, @11:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the leaving-the-basement dept.

BBC:

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?


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @11:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @11:20PM (#760514)

    I've watched the government and a single woman collude over multiple years to turn that single woman into a single mom via adoption, and then she went around telling everyone how hard it was to be a single mom, and that she was so thankful that she lived in a society that is willing to take care of those in need.

    You can't make this stuff up.

    The West is rushing to its death.

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