Big Tech Bans, and the Alleged Russian Hacking
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Youngme , Felix , and Rawi discuss Twitter and Facebook banning Trump from their platforms, as well as Apple, Google, and Amazon banning the Parler app. They also discuss the alleged Russian hacking of U.S. government and military systems.
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| 0:27.7 | HBR presents. Hi everyone, you're listening to after hours I'm young me I'm Felix and I'm |
| 0:47.8 | Rowie and hi guys what a nice and tranquil start to the new year, huh? |
| 0:53.0 | Yes. |
| 0:55.0 | I saw this very funny sign the other day where someone said, |
| 0:58.0 | cancel my subscription for 2021. |
| 1:01.0 | I tried for seven days and it's not really what I promised to be. |
| 1:06.3 | So what is your strategy for getting through a week where day after day there is so much news coming out of our capital. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah I would say I have two strategies. |
| 1:18.0 | One is I work out with all of this random workout equipment so I basically got a gym in workout with |
| 1:23.3 | basically a gym in my basement with kettle bells and stuff and try to imagine that |
| 1:30.7 | maybe I'm just getting stronger. |
| 1:32.4 | Some sort of literal and metaphorical way. |
| 1:36.0 | And then the other way I spend time, honestly, is I try to think about what clever things I'm going to say about what's going on when people start to ask me about it |
| 1:44.8 | because I know I'm going to have to say something. Well then the fact that we're |
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