CultCast #348 - Apple enters the censorship game
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🗓️ 10 August 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
- EU regulators are considering whether they need to force a common standard for phone chargers.
- The idea is to cut down on the 51,000 tons of old chargers and cables thrown away each year.
- Way back in 2009, the European Commission pressured Apple and 13 other companies to work toward a common charging standard by 2011. All the other signatories gave up their proprietary plugs and switched to USB. Apple switched to lightning, their own proprietary port.
- Accordingly to Reuters, that didn't satisfy that EU Commissioner of Competition, and now the commission is launching an impact assessment study to evaluate costs and benefits of different other options, the other option being forcing Apple to adopt USB on the devices.
- Apple has removed the entire back catalog for five InfoWars’ six podcasts on iTunes and its Podcasts app. One of these shows is the daily “War Room” show hosted by owner and radio host Alex Jones.
- Shortly thereafter, Facebook removed InfoWars page, YouTube removed their channel, Pinterest pin boards, Linked In removed the InfoWars page, Mail Chimp refuses to send their emails, and website comment host Disqus has given them the boot.
- "Consistent with our existing policies, we take action against accounts that repeatedly save content that could lead to harm," a Pinterest spokesperson said in an email statement.
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| 0:00.0 | This morning Brian Scott made a career decision. He decided to be an astronaut. |
| 0:06.0 | His first giant step, learning to use an apple. There are more apple twos teaching more subjects in more schools than any other computer. |
| 0:15.0 | So whatever Brian wants to be, an Apple personal computer can help him be it. |
| 0:21.0 | As of this afternoon, that's a marine biologist. |
| 0:25.0 | The apple too. |
| 0:27.0 | There's no telling how far it can take you. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello! And welcome to the old Kasy Best 30 plus minute, I have a conversation you're going to hear all week long. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm your very hot, oh, literally. |
| 0:43.2 | Air Final Lizer joining me today, |
| 0:45.1 | someday he'll be buried in an all-white |
| 0:48.3 | Johnny I've designed custom casket with champered edges. |
| 0:54.8 | The founder, ladies and gentlemen, the founder of Kolomac. |
| 0:57.9 | Leander, Kaney. |
| 1:01.7 | Also with us, he's called the Max managing editor and he also manages to be a heck of a nice guy. |
| 1:08.4 | Louis Wallace is here. |
| 1:09.8 | Hey, thank you. |
| 1:12.0 | Buster was here moments ago, but we lost him |
| 1:15.4 | because he is in 110 degree heat in Reno, Nevada. |
| 1:21.2 | And he's in his van in a restaurant parking lot connected to their |
| 1:24.8 | Wi-Fi and I sheet you nuts his MacBook Pro was having problems cooling itself off |
| 1:31.0 | so he couldn't do the show because he's in 110 degree |
| 1:34.9 | van in the in the parking lot of a restaurant. I don't think that's in within the |
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