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15 Nov 11:30am

Filed under: Doctor Who, Entertainment, Neil Gaiman, Reddit, Social Media, Society, Television

Can we just stop for a second and appreciate that in group situations people want to be good, and moral and right? For a shining, solitary moment, the internet was at its moral best.

This man inspired mob rule of a positive nature…

What the hell am I talking about, you ask? Only about how Neil Gaiman - and the internet - were saved from a potential leak of his latest Doctor Who script which was accidentally left in the back of a taxi. An absent-minded actress had reportedly been reading it in a cab and presumably left it sitting in the back seat while she was paying and forgot to pick it up again.

The script was found by a non-Whovian (non Doctor Who fan - to those not in the know) who posted a photo of it on her Facebook page. Her friend, a Whovian and Redditor (editor on social news website, Reddit), known as “Shrimpdude” posted the image on Reddit and pondered over what to do.

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St. Michael says:

05:22pm | 15/11/12

@ Austin 3:16: “The Catholic Church would never do such a thing. Why recently high profile police officers have spoken enthusiastically about the full, open, frank help they’ve received from the Church while conducting their investigations.” Sarcasm ill-becomes you. I didn’t deny there was a cover up. I only want… Read more »
Grey says:

04:52pm | 15/11/12

The probably the whole scenario from start to finish was dreamed up by some social media public relations consultant. Read more »

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