Big Tech Must Die with Mike Bridenstine & Katharine Trendacosta

The Bitchuation Room

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News Commentary, News, Comedy, Government

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Just because Facebook did the right thing by booting Trump, doesn’t mean it will stop monetizing hate. Katharine Trendacosta of the Electronic Frontier Foundation joins The Bitchuation Room to talk about breaking up big tech while preserving actual free speech, saving our privacy and why the right has no idea that Orwell was a socialist. Plus Biden’s first week, Bernie’s mittens, and Mitch McConnell begs Democrats let him keep the filibuster. Not up to you, sweetie! Francesca and guest comedian Mike Bridenstine dig into it all and play a game of “Finish this Tweet”. Featuring:Mike Bridenstine, comedian (@brido) Katharine Trendacosta, Associate Director of Policy and Activism for The Electronic Frontier Foundation (@k_trendacosta) Francesca Fiorentini, host Join the Frantifa by supporting The Bitchuation Room's Patreon!Find The Bitchuation Room on Twitter (@thebitchuationpod), YouTube AND Twitch.Find Francesca on Twitter (@franifio) and Instagram (@franifio)Thanks to producer Rebecca Rufer, and post production team Kelly Carey & Dorsey Shaw. Music Credits: The Cannery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4485-the-canneryLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	Three little kittens lost their mittens and they began to cry.
0:06.4	But my hands were warm at the inaugural snora
0:10.0	because it should have been me swearing in on a Torah. What is going on?
0:25.0	everybody, welcome to the Bituation Room Podcast, live stream on another Sunday or Monday or Tuesday or whenever the hell you're
0:35.3	listening to this in the future all you future people drop us a line let us know if we make it.
0:40.4	I am still your host. I'm still from Jessica Fiorendini, that's right, the most Italian name ever.
0:49.4	I challenge you to find me a more Italian name. My name sounds like it was once a racial
0:57.4	slur against Italians. Anyway, we have such a good show for you this week.
1:03.7	I'm so excited because we're talking about big tech.
1:07.2	We are talking about what's been going on
1:09.6	in the Twitter Nazi ban world and whether we're for that and what it means for the future of big tech
1:18.8	and what it means for the future of Sean is here to talk all about that and also comedian Mike Bridenstein is here.
1:35.7	He's the best so I'm so happy to finally have him on the show and this is
1:41.8	episode if anyone's been keeping track.
1:45.0	It's episode 69.
1:48.0	Woey!
1:50.0	That's what you do when you're 69.
1:52.0	Now you can't really do that also actually you can't it's very muffled if you do that but I would like to get a lot of nicest going in the comments section please 34 plus 35 as Ariana Grande would say I'm not a fan I'm gonna be
2:06.4	honest not a fan of the position like I get why it's hot but like you can't do two things at once it's just it's hot, but like you can't do two things at once. It's just it's too much. It's too much. Okay, we can talk about that another time. Maybe on a bonus episode.
2:20.8	Because we do have bonus episodes, often for patrons only, initially.
2:26.0	Like this week, I had a patron only episode looking at all of the photographs of the Trump administration.
2:32.0	So if you haven't seen that, become a patron.
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