Twitter's Double Standard: The Case of Rebecca Jones and the Problem with Social Media

She was set up so why would you ban Rebecca Jones from Twitter? Did she say something incendiary, did she make violent threats, no she didn't actually do anything. Well, she might not have done anything a bunch of people followed her that are bots, that are known to Twitter to be bots. Did she buy followers which is forbidden, that'll get your account banned or did somebody buy followers in order to get her banned in order to silence her? Which if that's the case what is the protection against that and the answer is there's none. If you're Jack Dorsey, you have to reinstate her account because you don't know but I wonder what she's doing now. Because if she's become a sort of like a pundit off the back of this then I could maybe believe that she did it otherwise why would she care about followers? I think she's in the interviews that I've seen with her, she just seems kind of exhausted and ready for everything to be over because it's like this is stupid. Nothing's going to change, I'm just going to keep you know reporting data, the failure here is Twitter. Yeah can we not say that Twitter should now just be invalidated as a social media? Because now we know that this gaping hole is there. We can just cancel each other at will. Do people look at followers though like I feel like it doesn't matter but I feel like I guess for marketing firms it does. But I feel like with the whole police raiding her house at gunpoint for no good reason, wouldn't have been nearly as big of a deal without social media. Like that would have just been quietly swept under the rug because stuff like that happens all the time. Yeah yeah that's certainly true if you could silence her completely. Yeah from that then it would be hard to get the word out. Because you remember the whole time they were like no at no point where guns drawn it was literally in the police report and then there was video. Oh whoops but I've heard that a lot actually. I have a friend who was arrested at gunpoint and when they were interrogating him they were like why were you so nervous and he was like because there was guns in my face and they said we never do guns so apparently that's pretty common thing for cops to do.

The Dangers of Social Media: A Case Study

One of the problems with social media is you see what other people say and do and you're like oh man I wish I would have said that. At least that's what most people do. St Paul, a principal at a school, suspended herself for plagiarizing in other principles, Facebook post this is just like the most, this should have been a nonsense, this is like the most pedestrian thing ever because some principal somewhere was like ah school's about more than blah blah blah oh that sounds good copy paste and she put it in a school newsletter as well. She really liked it and somebody at the school clearly this woman was not popular at this school and somebody at the school said I've seen her writing before it's barely intelligible, it's right with coherent misspellings and grammar mistakes. She did not write that and so we googled it and guess what came up oh yeah pleasure, she just posted a minion meme plagiarism in this world you're not gonna get away with it it's too easy to track that down well Krista, this is probably one of the shorter episodes this week, so uh maybe a quick garden update. Quick garden update, uh I have to be away this weekend so I am frantically watering everything before I leave today and the pumpkins are doing great we got lots of blossoms on them cucumbers I have cucumbers in the garden now they all have blossoms on them tomatoes all have blossoms but no fruit no blackberries yet. And most importantly, can we get a kitten update oh they don't know about the kittens I found kittens in my yard they haven't I haven't seen them again though I've seen the mama but I haven't seen the baby kittens again what steps are you taking to attract them back? You have to get them back. I've been putting water out for them, I don't want to leave food because I don't want to get every critter in eastern Kentucky coming up on my porch but you're not in eastern Kentucky all right well it sounds like a solid garden what you got any final thoughts on your drink? It's delightful, I regret that it's the only one that I have and that was ice what was it called uh sparkling ice plus caffeine orange passion fruit, i think we can get that here. I think I've seen it yeah, I think that's flavored sparkling of water is what they call it static water. Well thanks again for Morgan with replicas if you're ever in Florida and what are we what is he going to drink on the next episode stay tuned you\\

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everybody welcome back to level one news today we're doing government and social but before we get started with that we have another box of sodas to try hooray we actually do we know what's in the box we don't oh i assumed it was soda i've only read the note so it says hello again hello again good sir it's a long note it is a long i'm probably gonna skip some of this i won't spam you with a bunch of gift of gift boxes but i do want to reload your diet orange okay plus i came a bunch of across a bunch of other random stuff here i'll let you deal with this and then there's the end and then there's some stuff at past the end so what am i doing you do that while i deal with you he's gonna open the box yeah what oh no it won't open oh there's there's some stuff in here that might get us to monetize is it like super personal or no it's it's banned items oh yeah some of this was delivered by courier so it's like i get the the impression that like i don't know the i-75 drug corridor somebody was just like oh yeah i'm gonna be in town anyway i'll just drop it off winthrop liquors if you find yourself in florida i don't know which part do we know which part check out went the blickers and talk to morgan show them your pokemon that is a mighty gift box it is very heavy it says whistle pig craft here it's a beer no this is rock whiskey box gift box well we haven't opened the box yet the box is very obviously bitten oh yeah i was going to say this like that's an expensive i didn't bring my knife because i'm wearing shorts oh a trucker hat a watershed kitchen and bar trucker hat a world war ii ammo pouch this is a motion clip pouch i believe is what he said so this would not have been united states issue i don't know 1986 that wasn't world war two there's a glass jar of pennies that says noisemaker oh wendell you should play with that during the news what a random bunch of stuff what are these i don't know they look like tiny canteens is this like a alcoholic keep this in your pocket down in your purse yeah and you just there's a logo on it looks like an arrow maybe there's another one an arrow inside a triangle what sort of esoteric symbol is that i feel certain there was an explanation for this in the letter oh well i can i can tell you what's itemized here blanton's bourbon drum a drum uh post world war ii russian ammo oh post world war ii okay so this is not mohsin this is probably like uh sks or something cold war makes more sense uh is marked motion oil battle plus blanks bottle oil bottle oh these are the most in oil bottles okay sunshine good energy clementine twist that's on the that's on the the list for today there's another bird dog whiskey shot something ah yes look at this ryan i feel certain this was intended for you because you said something about disposable straws yeah i don't remember what i said oh this is a it transforms is it a reusable straw yeah but it's foldable here is a the cooper set of things oh coasters for your drinks wow that is a robust coaster yeah one coaster here's a shirt that might possibly fit krista that is a real ingredients cocktail look at that oh it's got a little oh it's got little plastic gaskets on it too oh it's magic that's a fancy straw i have like a metal one that i use but i know maybe it's spring loaded how would you clean this good lord the stuff in here little tiny brush that goes in it sorry this is taking forever i'm sure there's time indexes what else are they gonna do nochino watershed distillery barrel finished oh good lord oh 4.9 alcohol from watershed in ohio italian liqueur made with walnuts spicy sweet and slightly bitter you can sip it and add it to ice cream or add it to a cocktail it's very popular even with non-drinkers deep eddie orange alcoholic something here's a random cigar do any of you guys smell i don't smoke do you guys smoke no no does it hubby smoke cigars very rarely that sounds like you disapprove hydrate refresh refuel zero sugar caffeine and colors antioxidants and vitamins orange passion fruit all right this is top of the list for today's first orange i don't know if we got descriptions of all that other stuff fucano vault number one is that wine an actual glass bottle not for resale oh i've had this before i think doritos burritos burritos yeah or is it haritos yeah you get that in the spanish aisle they have that at the local mexican grocery too i had that many years ago is that orange flavor or mango flavor it's it's like a it's a citrusy flavor that's not as sharp as far as orange goes mandarin that's orange here's a tiny bottle of blanton's bourbon that's just down the road uh stargazing with the eighth state imperial pastry stout the eighth state i thought we were on the third estate hey street stout god i love these hipster beer names by antioxidant infusion this does not appear to be one bottle is 10 calories that's wow okay this looks promising add a tiny little thing of uh white russian cocktail 17 alcohol bible oh that's a mini cake you don't see cocktails in cans very often do you it's a padded box and also a very nice old forester bottle opener thank you that's a lot of stuff what an eclectic grouping of swag that literally went across their entire store looking for everything that was even remotely orange well most of this stuff is not orange oh i guess i could try a cigar is it is it an orange cigar is that the thing cause that that used to be a thing i don't think so all right we know this is pretty reasonable so this is awesome i will drink the crap out of this don't worry what is that that's the publix okay we've seen that yeah yeah you finished the other model right yeah i think the orange passion fruit this this is what's on my list for what brand is that this is uh oh that's the ice sparkling ice caffeine yeah there's no calories in this but it's caffeinated didn't don't we have some of that leftover from the other one not the same stuff not the exact same stuff okay but we do have some leftover from the other thing i still have one can of the san pellegrino which is amazing that i'm saving well yeah we've already seen that that is a lot are you drinking that warmer yeah okay you have a cup of ice yeah i planned i should have just put everything in the fridge but i wasn't sure what was in there what is i didn't see this one no chino i think it's what he said this was the ohio one walnut and spicy this has a very strong scent of grapefruit grapefruit like it's citrus and grapefruit but it's a more overpowering and a great fruit side this coaster is ridiculously too large it's perfect it's attractive though this is hmm this is a very unique flavor how orangey is it it's not especially orange it has the orange aftertaste it has the the sharpness of like a good orange like the aroma after you swallow it but the taste is decidedly not orange it's the aftertaste it's more orange what's the taste it's almost like a pomegranate like a pomegranate orange mixture go through the checklist carbonation sugar uh oh it's five calories no fat no sodium no carbohydrates no proteins fifteen percent of vitamin a fifteen percent nice in there we don't need the vitamin k uh it's a fifteen percent vitamin d but i'm not i don't need the stuff from the can i'm talking about what your criteria because you always talked about the carbonation level being very important oh uh the carbonation level in this for what it is is just perfect it's not too carbonated but it's not not carbonated enough it's a little carbonated but not it's way way less carbonated than soda well and it's not got all the sugar in it so we're not calling that soda well i mean i guess it is way less carbonated than like the publix orange soda what about that letter grade oh this is an a minus at least wow that ties the top runner right yeah which i don't remember who that was uh ingredients carbonated water two percent less of natural flavors malic acid beta-carotene for color caffeine from natural sources green tea extract ah the green tea that's what i'm tasting potassium benzoate to ensure freshness sucralose gum uh arabic lester gum calcium disodium edta a bunch of other stuff are we counting this as a diet drink i mean 10 calories is pretty low it's kind of like a static water yeah they've added uh they've added all the vitamins and stuff i guess to to offset the fact that it's you know but it's mostly carbonated water apparently it's it's delightful welcome to the static water club at the delightful a minus and thank you again to morgan from withrip liquors and if you find yourself in florida i don't know where exactly check out wither blickers he already emailed me and said there's another box on the way oh wow apparently whither blicker's incredibly overstocked well with the pandemic and whatnot you know we can contribute to their advertising dollars no people are drinking way more and apparently women are drinking extravagantly more oh yeah and when asked about it the answer is just to deal they they uh they made it legal here to uber eats alcohol so i think you can ship alcohol in kentucky now too well let's talk about some government news how long did that take like 15 minutes so welcome to the actual news 12 minutes my goodness i am so sorry time stamp uh let's talk about the big g7 summit the leaders of the free world got together and uh probably made a bunch of bad decisions and there was a lot of finger pointing a lot of you know you need to stop doing this but i mean isn't everyone doing this isn't that the problem biden tells putin certain cyber attacks should be quote unquote off limits so shouldn't all cyber attacks be off limits yeah they outlined the 12 what was it like the the 12 days of christmas or i'm sorry all the 12 pillars of infrastructure yeah you know food energy communication the obvious things that you would do in cyber war yeah or just regular war like cutting supply lines the response here was a bit lukewarm because it was like ah you know there's criminals i don't know what to tell you but also you know they were constantly like putin you need to stop doing this and he was like what you need to stop doing this too right what kind of game are we playing here folks let's be honest with each other uh we have a new person taking over as ftc chairs not the same as the fcc chair although their jobs are strangely intertwined these days and what we know about this person is they're not a huge fan of big tech companies at all lena khan progressive tech credit sworn in as the ftc chair one of the youngest ever she's like 32 which i guess is young for that job it sure is yeah she was already a commissioner and now she's being moved up to chair she was also the youngest commissioner ever well if being young imparts an ability to understand technology we're in better shape than we were but she is uh pretty much by putting her in that position they're guaranteeing that the big tech companies are going to get further abuse from this organization i think it's going to be you need to play ball or we're going to make your life miserable i think this is just totally just lip service and it wasn't the ftc that gave us this one but it also wasn't the fcc who was usually in charge of this kind of thing and the reason probably is because in the past we've had some questions about just how accurate the fcc numbers are in this regard and sure enough this version doesn't quite match exclusive the white house debuts this new map showing the broadband vacuum remember the app that we talked about a year and a half ago and said hey everybody should go play with the app look at that all the red places are places where the internet is awful can confirm kentucky it's just a sea of red every place is you can you get like half of i-75 and it just dies off in the middle so yeah this is different data gathering because the fcc actually gets all the numbers from the eyes piece so there's a little uh maybe rose colored maybe a lot rose color maybe super lying there's nothing like there's nothing exactly gonna happen with this because the white house usually doesn't deal with this kind of thing but hopefully it'll put a little pressure on the people who should do something about this now the supreme court still busy making decisions about things that matter less than other things they ignore but this one was interesting because we've talked about this one before when it comes to linkedin and is public facing website data something that you should be able to stop people from getting to if you want is that a protected trade secret well maybe it is the u.s supreme court revives a linkedin bid to shield personal data this is a terrible headline there's a competitor to linkedin that's literally just scraping the linkedin website they are a competitor but they're doing is like creating alerts off of the linkedin data so it's a little bit of added value and linkedin recently introduced that as well after that so this case will do exactly zero to stop criminals from scraping but maybe a competitive barrier and i think that that on that basis it's like a telephone book so the telephone book contains factual information but a telephone book company can put up made up names and addresses and stuff in there which are then subject to copyright same with maps maps technically are not really subject to copyright unless you make some aspect of them creative and then that might be subject to copyright and the way that map makers have done that is add things to maps that are not there and then if you're going to copy their map you probably are going to accidentally copy something they added which means you then run afoul of copyright law so the supreme court is actually just a kicking that back they have not made an ultimate decision but they're going to allow it to go through so who knows maybe that linkedin will be able to stop them the previous ruling had said they have no control i mean look put it on the public-facing website it's out there deal with it supreme court says maybe not the us and the eu of course at the big g7 meeting a lot of stuff was talked about technology and if you recall the eu is really really the the big tech companies are the whipping boys of the eupm's they love it and the us is saying hey guys we can't help but notice that these companies that you hate so much are all flying the same flag the us has warned the eu against anti-american tech policy the nfc has some strong opinions about biden's first presidential trip to brussels so i got the impression that it wasn't just like google and facebook but it was also like american networking companies the as i read this i sort of got uh hints of huawei it's like hey don't treat american companies the way that we're you know we collectively eu and us are treating huawei because we think they're back doors and we think the technology subpar and blah blah i think it's fair to say and i i suppose his most ardent supporters might deny this but objectively i think it's fair to say that donald trump did not deal well with insubordination or criticism yeah that's probably actually yeah he tended to react uh strongly and publicly and what some people would not describe as presidentially but now we're also describing that secretly can be added to some of those uh descriptors uh the trump justice department subpoenaed apple for data from house intelligence committee democrats sources say so the situation here was that uh there was a house intelligence committee that had democrats on it and there was a leak to the press several leaks and so the justice department in the course of investigating the leaks not only subpoenaed apple whatever data they had on the members of this committee but also their families and their children oh which should be illegal yeah this comes on the back of last week when we found out that the same thing would be done to newspapers yeah so a lot of stuff going on there has to be a lot of corruption for this kind of thing to be okayed well we already knew that just most of them were i think most presidents were smart enough to know that this would wash out eventually this seems worse than watergate i don't think that's don't think anybody died and uh ai research when someone comes to you and says hey listen your country insert country name whatever country you're from we need to get ai research we need to stay in the pack here because we can't let these other countries get ahead of us this is the wave of the future you'd say like yeah that does sound like a good idea but then when they really tell you what they want here you should say no because this is terrifying the u.s launches a task force to study opening government data for ai research the task force to develop plans which require congress congressional approval for sharing data on health driving demographics and more again this this article had undertones of the article last week i think it was last week or the week before that was talking about the eu opening up medical data for all the eu citizens for research this is like oh that's probably a good idea we should do that and it's like obviously you haven't thought this through there is a paywall but there is a horrible quote in here uh or maybe it was the alternative article i read i was like well the department of transportation already has all this telemetry data from the cars just let us look at it and i was like they do oh really i didn't realize we were passing that along already so that's probably going to be a thing and of course we've talked about anonymizing data like that yeah and how it's a fool's errand you don't trust it at all if you have the full data set it's like i'm going to need to know which data sets were at ryan's house the most yeah oh look at that and as more than one data set gets unlocked and matched to you it gets easier that's how that works you got to go on facebook marketplace and have rando show up at your house at all hours so that way it throws it off i guess that would maybe poison one of them not sure if the driving one would work didn't get targeted for drug arrests it's bad enough that i get flagged because my electricity usage is excessive if you're someone who gets depressed because of the never-ending march of time and how long it's been since earlier milestones especially with the time compression during the pandemic how about reality winner has been in prison for so long she's done nsa leaker reality winner uh has been released early for good behavior she's still got three years of supervised house release and she's in the transition process so technically she's still in custody it's a halfway house till november i think yeah not allowed to talk to the press as part of the supervisor release or make any public statements or cause any trouble really reality winner was a whistleblower but kind of the least effective whistleblower maybe the intentions were good but certainly didn't do anything on the scope of snowden or assange yeah so and maybe that's why they're not trying to kill her right now online subscriptions are horrible and so many places want you just like oh listen it's free for x number of days just sign up we're going to need a credit card yeah don't worry about that we just need it and a lot of people are upset about that including our lawmakers senate bill will make it easier to cancel the subscription online after a free trial this is essentially the federal version of the same law that california has i didn't really see any substantive differences and that law say it says like as easy it is for you to sign up should be just as easy for you to cancel you cannot force phone calls unless the sign up required phone call and uh you know there's a variety of things that you just you can't get away with doing here you oh you have to notify before a free trial transitions into not a full subscription yeah but you have to what's not just enough to notify you have to get some sort of acknowledgement that like yes proceed which will destroy the business models yes of a lot of companies we got a little sweet and sour here we'll start with a sweet victory new york senate passes a landmark right to repair bill it was like 52 to 12. lewis rossman is really excited about it this is only the first hurdle before it becomes law so this is all about uh you got to get the replacement parts documentation really one to the minimal stuff yeah that people have always been asking for the absolute minimum uh there will be i'm sure some time for appeal and stuff like that here and unfortunately because of the legislative scheduling there's not time to get this done until the next session this this really strikes me as a right to wash your own dishes law and this might be like calling a timeout right before half time yeah just let people forget about this we'll destroy it in the meantime yeah don't worry even though that's a little bit of bitter with the sweet isn't it but the real sour doesn't come till next new york state low-cost brand broadband law has been blocked by a u.s judge so the u.s judge is uh is is playing the the idiocy card well i don't know what is what does low income mean do not attribute this to idiocy you know what this is yeah the judge is just wandering around saying like i don't know what low income is all there's all these terms they're not defined what they are i'm confused and nobody helped me it's a lot of technicality too he doesn't have a solid argument against the spirit of this thing he has arguments against you know like who has the authority to actually do these things he claims that the federal law preempts new york from doing this so well uh you know in that case then i think the incumbents need to gtfo of new york city they promised to deliver certain things to new york city in exchange for the franchise they have failed they need to gtfo i think a lot of people are leaving in new york city i mean the franchise not not the actual people wow like the cable franchise and that kind of thing why would the isps why would they leave well because they failed they they got the monopoly but in exchange for the monopoly they were supposed to deliver service you want them to behave morally no no they were themselves it was a business transaction they were required to deliver service in exchange for the monopoly and they didn't they didn't live up to their end of the bargain oh yeah but i'm saying they should be kicked out i think yeah but he specifically stopped that from happening yeah well that was the that was the workaround to stop that from happening and since he's blocking that then it should be back to they have to be kicked out which is a worse situation for them well speaking of reality winner and whistleblowers another thing that happened when biden made his little trip is that people kind of got together and they're like hey listen we were all talking and we were thinking uh there's one big problem that you need to deal with julian assange remember him the uk lawmakers asked biden to drop the charges against the wikileaks founder because he's just in the uk and he's in you know super max and probably being psychologically tortured and uh he's probably in full isolation yeah which is proven i don't think any human being has ever survived more than like seven or eight years of full isolation without severe mental problems severe mental problems so the other thing i love about it is uh you know they're they did sort of the same thing and biden was part of the team the talking about the the russian guy that was poisoned like hey you need to let him go and putin's like what about assange it's snowden i got snowden here you want to talk to him you can't the i remember this story so there was a big thing about amazon and um was it uber eats that also did this there were several delivery companies that did this where they would guarantee you a minimum payout yes yeah but if you got a tip they would put the tip toward the minimum payout before so like basically they were stealing your tips it wasn't initially that way either right yeah they changed it after the fact and everybody was like yo you're stealing this is theft and amazon says no the judge will never agree to that that's that's not what it is amazon will pay 62 million over deceptive delivery tips claims the company said it would pay delivery drivers for up to roughly 25 an hour plus tips but the ftc alleged that it had kept a third of tips so and for once 62 million is the amount they stole yeah they had to give back the exact it's almost never like that you almost always pay a fine that's a fraction of what you stole in this case it's exactly that we know of uh they did promise to also pay the delivery drivers rock solid we'll go back and pay him it's fine amazon's a small indie company this is a rough thing for them bloomberg i wonder if uh this new version of this browser has some sort of paywall blocker because i can't scroll but we don't see the box anymore we didn't do that on purpose bloomberg so don't sue us but uh yeah apple has got some bad news and they make no bones about this when they ask about this they're like no that cannot happen that is unacceptable this must never happen apple cannot block pre-installed app removal under bill according to bloomberg so this is uh was this the eu version of the us version because there's two it's happening in both places i think this was the us version okay yeah so um this is not quite the victory that you might think it is this is just if somebody wants to uninstall a built-in apple app this is supposed to let them like because you can't do that right now it's like oh you can't uninstall mail or you can't uninstall the app store that's crazy yeah and sim kirk is saying no that's unacceptable because you know we have to have that this is part of our business model it is interesting that the lawmakers seem to be thinking about this like the night maybe they were around when the ibm pc launched because ibm initially did try a little bit they sort of stuck their toe in the water with some of these shenanigans like oh only an ibm certified operating system or ibm certified software on your ibm pc and the antitrust i don't think there was any legal action but you know the the regulators that were able to just be like you can't we're not doing that and so they're looking at it kind of like that it's like well if somebody wants to format and reinstall something else on their ibm pc that was fine why isn't that okay on an iphone and i think the last week we talked about the eu version of this and the uk just i mean it's just more people doing the same thing yeah uh another bloomberg article uh android and appleface uk probe amid competition this is the duopoly uh antitrust article isn't it because we've got that as well as the app bundling oh yeah this is the competition in terms of search and uh apps on the store and stuff like that yeah it's like they're they're best frenemies and the the uk is like well let's just probe that this is it's this is more of an information discovery operation though because it's like you know you guys seem to be frenemies maybe that's competition working but maybe it's all a ruse let's let's subpoena some documents so it'll be interesting to follow that uh el salvador we talked about last week has accepted bitcoin as legal tender you can use it without paying any capital gains or anything like that you can spend it whatever still transaction fees but that's not part of the government and everybody was like oh yay but it turns out they didn't really have a plan how to do that because it's like you know bitcoin sure oh no but you have to sort of like tie it to your currency and there's a lot of stuff to consider and they're like all right we know who to ask for help and one after the other they heard booming laughter when they floated these ideas to the major banks reuters reports that the world bank has rejected el salvador's request for help on an implementation of bitcoin as a national currency thanks reuters the imf has also declined it's almost like the deck is not stacked in their favor so we'll see what they figure out there that could be a real disaster and here's one that's terrifying and i don't know would you would you give it up or would you stand firm how long could you stay in a jail cell before you just gave it up i think i would give them the duress password which erases everything let's assume that you don't have that set up the irish police to be given powers over passwords so the irish police like no you have to give up your password let us in so we can take a look around make sure that you're not doing anything this will never be abused never there were a couple other rules here that actually sort of rang them in a little bit but this is a such an overreach it's hard not to just focus on this one it's it's definitely a case of is a computer you know the way that you use it an extension of your brain or not because if it's an extension of your brain right now at least your brain has more or less absolute privacy i don't think it can be argued as an extension of your brain but it also creates a situation where forgetting your password is literally a crime yeah and you can be probably you could be incarcerated almost indefinitely if you keep refusing oh can you imagine like your parents or something or like they've been pulled over and the the cops like please tell me your password like i don't know you have to call my son yeah my parents would have no clue yeah it would also be a great way to take out your political opponents too because you could you know get them in a traffic stop and and do a little something to their phone just a little bit of corruption and then the phone's like i don't i don't know what that password is and it's like well we got a password they won't give us the we got a phone they won't give us the password they say that this is the password and it's not the password and then you know political opponent problem solved yeah you say that you say a little bit of corruption we don't have a little bit of corruption we have a lot of corruption it's coming out of every orifice and the g7 once again talking to russia and you know i think you mentioned this before putin's like hey listen i don't control these people no no seriously come on we're all adults here the g7 also calls on russia to crack down on the ransomware gangs they're out of control unpopular opinion as effective as these gangs are it's going to make our security better the headlines of all of these companies having it worse and worse and worse for some companies they will spend the money and it's happening before it's happening at a time when we have so much consolidation that we have trillion dollar companies and it is more survivable to deal with this today than if you know if the world stage actually were such that you know the criminal gangs would ignore these vulnerabilities the nation states could abuse them we will actually be in worse shape in the future for nation states being able to abuse these types of things because well i mean let's face it nation states have been abusing these types of holes since the 80s they just weren't using it for ransomware they're using it for espionage and data exfiltration and other more unsavory things a lot of people you know let's talk about the moon missions stuff like the space program why it really you get products at that you get innovation out of that and it's less popular to talk about but war does the same thing very quickly also really takes care of that population problem although i guess cyber war not so much we uh i love these articles because and i guess you know to be fair pakistan might have never promised this but almost every government in the world was like look this could never happen what are you crazy is this 1984 were just not going to do stuff like this and you're an idiot for even suggesting it uh pakistan's uh punjab is going to block sim cards of citizens that uh haven't had the uh the human malware patch installed um so yeah if your job in in in pakistan uh you're you're gonna your phone's not gonna work which is really critical it's like your technology is not going to work a lot of people that's their only yeah connection to the internet is their phone there so they're pretty much just turning you off those mark of the beast people are they're crazies but they might be onto something on this one and moving on to social media here's a terrifying thing chris how terrified are you of this um not crazy but because you don't have an iphone right right and also i don't take these kinds of photos but well if you did i hope it's because you know better because you know that things like this can happen but if they do it's nice because you get a nice payday apple settles lawsuit after iphone texts posted women's explicit photos on facebook report says is it there aren't there laws against the what's happening over there what are you doing there's there's a smell that i get a whiff of something every now and then and i'm i'm not sure what it is what's it smelling it doesn't smell bad it just smells kind of like ether yeah there's a lot of alcohol on the table something is so is there something ruptured somewhere or is it just is it some kind of aftertaste so this young lady was a college student and she took her iphone to be repaired in 2016 and had some even a video on there and these guys didn't just pull it off and look at it they put it on facebook her facebook because she was logged into facebook yeah astonishing and apple apple paid a bunch of money well i don't think it's shaken out yet uh they're asking for five million and apple did not respond for requests oh no they settled the lawsuit was it 12 million i can't remember the number yeah it's i'm pretty sure they settled and it was for a lot it might have been an undisclosed amount but uh oh yeah maybe they don't tell us but she was asking for 5 million 5 million seems low for that when you ask for a lot more i almost think this is staged to try to convince the public that a right to repair having wrought to repair will lead to this and it's like right to repair it like but yeah apple did it yeah it happened at an apple facility like what yeah but again stage to be like oh if we don't do this then this will happen wouldn't be the first time that will always happen yeah that's a forbidden fruit that certain people are not going to pass up i don't it feels so spiteful though why would you do that to someone you don't know i yeah the posting it makes no sense yeah so yeah no gain from that maybe she was just a a real uh unpleasant person to deal with when she brought the phone in to drop it off that's still crazy like why would you jeopardize your job like that but anyway for the means yeah well the rebecca jones case continues to be a roller coaster we found out that she was given whistleblower status but the her court case is still going on nothing is resolved who knows what's happening and then this happens the curious case of rebecca jones suspension from twitter so this article suggests that uh she was set up so why would you ban rebecca jones from twitter did she say something incendiary did she make violent threats no she didn't actually do anything well she might not have done anything a bunch of people followed her that are bots that are known to twitter to be bots did she buy followers which is forbidden that'll get your account banned or did somebody buy followers in order to get her banned in order to silence her which if that's the case what is the protection against that and the answer is there's none if you're jack dorsey you have to reinstate her account because you don't know but i wonder what is she doing now because if she's become a sort of like a pundit off the back of this then i could maybe believe that she did it otherwise why would she care about followers i think she's in the interviews that i've seen with her she just seems kind of exhausted and ready for everything to be over because it's like this is stupid nothing's going to change i'm just going to keep you know reporting data the failure here is twitter yeah can we not say that twitter should now just be invalidated as a social media because now we know that this this gaping hole is there we can just cancel each other at will do people look at followers though like i feel like it doesn't matter but i feel like i guess for marketing firms it does but i feel like with the whole police raiding her house at gunpoint for no good reason wouldn't have been nearly as big of a deal without social media like that would have just been quietly swept under the rug because stuff like that happens all the time yeah yeah that's certainly true if you could silence her completely yeah from that then it would be hard to get the word out yeah because you remember the whole time they were like no at no point where guns drawn it was literally in the police report and then there was video oh whoops but i've heard that a lot actually i have a friend who was arrested at gunpoint and when they were interrogating him they were like why were you so nervous and he was like because there was guns in my face and they said we never do guns so apparently that's pretty common thing for cops to do he didn't have a camera at the time our final story has to do with the dangers of social media and i think one of the problems with social media is you see what other people say and do and you're like oh man i wish i would have said that at least that's what most people do st paul principle suspended for plagiarizing in other principles facebook post this is just like the most this should have been a nonsense this is like the most pedestrian thing ever because some principal somewhere was like ah school's about more than blah blah blah oh that sounds good copy paste and she put it in a school newsletter as well she really liked it and somebody at the school clearly this woman was not popular at this school and somebody at the school said i've seen her writing before it's barely intelligible it's right with coherent misspellings and grammar mistakes she did not write that and so we googled it and guess what came up oh yeah pleasure she just posted a minion meme plagiarism in this world you're not gonna get away with it it's too easy too easy to track that down well krista this is probably one of the shorter episodes this week so uh maybe a quick garden update quick garden update uh i have to be away this weekend so i am frantically watering everything before i leave today and the pumpkins are doing great we got lots of blossoms on them cucumbers i have cucumbers in the garden now they all have blossoms on them tomatoes all have blossoms but no fruit no blackberries yet and most importantly can we get a kitten update oh they don't know about the kittens i found kittens in my yard they haven't i haven't seen them again though i've seen the mama but i haven't seen the baby kittens again what steps are you taking to attract them back you have to get them back i've been putting water out for them i don't want to leave food because i don't want to get every critter in eastern kentucky coming up on my porch but you're not in eastern kentucky all right well it sounds like a solid garden what you got any final thoughts on your drink it's delightful i regret that it's the only one that i have and that was ice what was it called uh sparkling ice plus caffeine orange passion fruit i think we can get that here i think i've seen it yeah i think that's flavored sparkling of water is what they call it static water well thanks again for morgan with replicas if you're ever in florida and what are we what is he going to drink on the next episode stay tuned you\n"