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🗓️ 16 May 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0	Where were you guys over the years as Bokoram has waged this campaign of terror? And where are you going to be as it continues? Because this is not ending anytime soon. The abduction of more than 250 Nigerian schoolgirls has the full attention of the international press for now. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield. In Europe, the courts
0:24.6	order Google to help protect us from our own pasts. When Google is the front page to the
0:30.4	internet for so many people, this race is a really big issue. Also, amid rising Russian censorship,
0:37.5	a look back at speech suppression
0:39.1	Soviet style.
0:40.8	Even comedians had to pass muster
0:42.8	with the Department of Jokes.
0:45.6	Yeah, we can talk about
0:46.9	fish, buttons, animals.
0:50.5	Those are very hot topics, you know.
0:53.4	There's more coming up after this.
0:59.1	Hi, podcast listeners.
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1:15.1	From W. NYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:19.8	Brook Ladstone is out this week.
1:21.8	I'm Bob Garfield.
1:23.7	During the night of April 14th, armed militants of the group Boko Haram
1:28.4	infiltrated a school in Cheebuck, Nigeria, and kidnapped more than 250 girls from
1:35.1	their beds at gunpoint. The girls were not blonde cheerleaders, so initial U.S. coverage
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