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Grumpy Old Geeks

322: VINDICATION!

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

On Twitter, delete = set visibility to zero; Open Markets against monopolies; AI fake faces; Google's shell corps; UK wants to regulate Facebook; don't give Instagram your credit card; RIP Oppy the Mars Rover; Oscar screeners; Netflix completes Marvel purge; Darknet Diaries; hygiene guide; feedback loop; Disintegration is the best album ever. Show notes at http://gog.show/322 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

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0:12.3

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0:16.0

Privacy.com.slash.gov.

0:21.7

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo,

0:26.5

discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:35.9

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks.

0:37.1

I'm Jason DeFilippo.

0:38.3

And I'm Brian Schulmeister.

0:39.7

We got some follow up, Brian.

0:41.8

And I would like to call this follow up our new segment called vindication.

0:46.1

Vindication.

0:48.4

Muffos.

0:49.9

This is an article over at TechCrunch.

0:52.2

It says, even years later, Twitter doesn't delete your direct messages.

0:56.4

And hold on a second.

0:57.4

You're saying when we delete something on social media, it doesn't get deleted?

1:02.1

Oh, I wonder where I've heard that before.

1:04.7

I wonder where I've heard that before.

1:06.7

And what I love is I swear to God, this writer over at TechCrunch must listen to our show

1:10.4

because it says, when does delete really mean delete?

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