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Episode 236 - Chasing Assh*les Around The Internet (w/ Evan Greer) (Patreon)

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Elon Musk is having a normal one on Twitter -- banning journalists who reported on the "Elon Jets" account that posted information about the location of his private plane, prohibiting links to sites like Mastodon & Instagram, and issuing polls asking the public whether he should step down from Twitter. (As of writing, more than 8 million have voted -- and he's losing.) It's a perfect time to talk to internet policy expert Evan Greer about legislation pending in congress that might help ensure some degree of the consistency and transparency that Elon promised, but has not yet provided. We discuss Parler, PayPal, & app store tyranny; the hypocrisy of Alejandra Caraballo's condemnation of right wing violence after calling for SCOTUS members to be "accosted," post-Dobbs, and more.

Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).

Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Comments

Anonymous

Great convo! The issue of these Mega Platforms making it very difficult to leave them, shows up everywhere in Americans lives. We have a small shop that has bought outright QuickBooks Pro Desktop for 14 years. I don't use all the services they add on every year, but all our shop's data is in QB, and I was familiar and it's easy to use. So I would purchase a new QB program every 2-3 years. In Dec 2021, our tax accountant told us to switch to QB 2022, because our old QB was gonna be obsolete. So I did. QB then started talking about how they were going to a subscription only platform, and ALL online. They increased the sub for QB Desktop from $360 to $560. I was told I either paid the $560 or be LOCKED OUT of our data! Fourteen YEARS of data! I was told by QB that we still owned our data, but we need to subscribe to them for access to it! Needless to say, I switched to Manager, a free offline bookkeeping program. My tax accountant only suggested Sage, which is as expensive as QB. My accountant has QB, so they can do our taxes, but I can't look at ANY thing from 2022 unless I pay QB $560. This is the endgame. You will own nothing, and you will like it - is the Elites and their PMC dupes LIE. NO ONE will like this, except those making money off it and their lapdog PMCs, like Ryan Grim, who are PAID just enough money to continue spreading their bullshit that voting Blue will somehow solve this problem.

Nathan Ngumi

A very interesting and timely episode... Regulation of the social media platforms is long overdue, but it requires a surgical precision because of the legal and regulatory complexities involved.

Anonymous

Little silos on the Mastodon Little silos made of ticky tacky Little silos on the Mastodon Little silos not the same There’s a liberal one and a conservative one And a socialist one and a communist one And they’re all made out of ticky tacky And they all look not the same We need to talk to each other folks. We need to address underlying issues and not just snipe at one another from our comfortable bubbles. Also, DuckDuckGo is awesome, 10/10 highly recommend.

C. Ries

Deplatforming works. The only question is: who and what.

Jonathan Kadmon
>>97858583

No, there's another one. For whom does it work? The answer is not necessarily what you might think.

Anonymous

Such a liberal at heart. Somehow the idea of immediate physical violence on one person is worse than the violence of depriving women of their rights. And also what Democracy? That’s not The system we live under.

Jn

This is fantastic Brie, thank you. Such an important issue, exclusive conduct and self preferencing by platforms, that the ftc has been enforcing against (clayton act sec 3 and unfair methods of competition) and Congress newly passing laws and states enforcing too. Really conduct likely illegally used by platforms everywhere, from tech to gig platform workers to seed manufacturers to meatpacking integrators