315: Under Pressure

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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The tech revolt; Netflix stats; Buzzfeed, HuffPo, Gannett lay off journalists; flagging fake news; Moviepass is back; Rekognition is biased; Pledge Music out of other people’s money; Facebook’s “facts”; the Cyber Diplomacy Act; Facebook Show notes at http://gog.show/315 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored exclusively by Privacy.com.
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0:31.0	Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks.
0:33.0	I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schlemmeister.
0:35.0	Brian, we got a little follow up here on the tech revolt.
0:39.0	Okay.
0:40.0	It was an interesting story in California Sunday.com, which I've never heard of.
0:44.0	Neither had I.
0:45.0	Yeah, but it's a laundry list of people in the tech industry who are pushing back on people being assholes.
0:51.0	I thought it was a very nice read.
0:53.0	It was a breath of fresh air.
0:55.0	Wish there were a lot more of them.
0:57.0	Yes, yes.
0:58.0	I highly recommend everybody check it out.
0:59.0	It will be in our show notes at GOG.
1:01.1	Show slash 315.
1:02.0	But there are quite a few people in some of these big companies that are pushing back.
1:07.0	Sadly, some of them get fired for doing it, which sucks.
1:11.0	Most of them from the stories that were in this particular paper.
1:14.0	Yes.
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