(2012/01/28) Stop Internet Censorship (SOPA and PIPA)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 29 January 2012
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Edition #570
Stop Internet Censorship
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Act 1: Stop Online Piracy Act - Citizen Radio - Air Date: 11-18-11
Song 1: Union Warriors - Robin Roberts
Act 2: Wikipedia Leaves GoDaddy Over Stop Online Piracy Act - Young Turks
Song 2: Wanted - The Cranberries
Act 3: Wikipedia warns students before going dark - Wait Wait Don't Tell Me - Air Date: 1-21-12
Song 3: Silver Lining - Rilo Kiley
Act 4: SOPA Supporter: Our Media Blackout on SOPA is Cool. Your Internet Blackout in Protest of It is not - Majority Report - Air Date: 01-18-12
Song 4: Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
Act 5: Analysis of the online protest and the future of SOPA - Common Sense Air Date: 1-24-12
Song 5: This is not the end - The Bravery
Act 6: The future of non-physical protests revealed by SOPA blackout day - The Bugle Air Date: 1-20-12
Song 6: Physical - Olivia Newton-John
Act 7: After PIPA: The Promise of Internet Organizing - The Progressive Air Date: 1-20-12
Song 7: Cast no shadow - Oasis
Act 8: Congress never moved so far so fast as with SOPA - Rachel Maddow Air Date: 1-18-12
Voicemails:
Thanks for Tim Wise, thoughts on whites working through their white privilege - Elka from Indiana
Personal insights on privilege and thoughts on PETA's new campaign referencing slavery - Alyson from Colorado
The science of African Americans from 1911 - Christopher from Texas
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on Erin Red getting the scoop on white privilege regarding veganism
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
SOPA & PIPA - Colbert Report
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.7 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestofluff.com. |
| 0:09.1 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with Cubs today from Citizen |
| 0:12.6 | Radio, The Young Turks, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, The Majority Report, Common Sense |
| 0:16.7 | with Dan Carlin, The Bugle, The Progressive, and The Rachel Maddo Show, with a bonus video |
| 0:21.1 | clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from the Colbert Report. |
| 0:27.8 | I don't know about SOPA, you should definitely educate yourself. |
| 0:34.0 | The Stop Online Piracy Act could end the Internet and Citizen Radio as we know it. |
| 0:39.2 | Now, my friend DC Pearson is so funny, so if you don't know DC, he was in Mystery Team, |
| 0:45.0 | he's in Accounting Group with our good friends Dominic Durkis and Donald Glover from Community, |
| 0:50.5 | and he, we were tweeting yesterday, he's a bit of an old man when it comes to pirating, |
| 0:57.5 | because they've had to promote even Mystery Team, which was in the feeders and had people |
| 1:01.8 | from Saturday Night Live in it, they had to essentially promote that themselves. |
| 1:05.8 | So when people would write on his Facebook wall, like, hey, just torrented your movie, |
| 1:10.8 | awesome work, bro. |
| 1:11.8 | He's like, thanks for stealing from me. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah, they might as well have just posted, sorry, you can't eat dinner tonight. |
| 1:16.2 | Right. |
| 1:17.2 | Hey, I mean, your house, I just took your wallet. |
| 1:18.8 | Right. |
| 1:19.8 | So obviously us and people on our show have different views of pirating. |
| 1:27.0 | And DC, the reason he wrote that, he goes, usually we bond on long hair issues, like |
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