Elon breaks Twitter to save it; Threads app slithers in for the kill; Meghan Markle gets an apology;Digital surveillance in France + Virginia + Sacramento. — NEWS ROUNDUP
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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4.1 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
So much happened with Twitter. It broke, or maybe they broke it. Then they broke it more, possibly trying to fix it. It's still broken and the vibes are off. Meta launched its new Threads app into the social hole abdicated by Twitter, and 30 million people said "ok" even though Meta is a demonstrably terrible brand that chooses profit over people over and over and over again. We'll probably check it out.
The ever increasing availability of digital surveillance tools is threatening privacy in France (the police want to turn on your phone's camera), Virginia (adults need to register with a government website to view porn), and Sacramento (the Sheriff illegally shares license plate data with police in states that have criminalized abortion).
Meanwhile in England, a newspaper was forced to publish a front-page apology for a sexist (but not racist!!!) article about Meghan Markle (it was racist).
Threads' privacy policy: https://help.instagram.com/515230437301944
Sacramento Sheriff: https://news.yahoo.com/sacramento-sheriff-sharing-license-plate-133000119.html
Virginia is for lovers (not filthy perverts): https://www.wired.com/story/porn-age-checks-id-laws/
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| 0:00.0 | There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:17.2 | I am here with my producer, Mike. |
| 0:19.1 | Mike, thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:20.7 | Thanks for having me, Bridget. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm excited to talk all about the tech news. |
| 0:24.6 | And here's what you may have missed this week on the internet. |
| 0:27.6 | So we're going to be kind of mixing it up a little bit today. |
| 0:31.6 | Honestly, there was so much to talk about. |
| 0:35.1 | A lot of it is related to Twitter. |
| 0:37.1 | So we're going to start with some news that you might have missed and then do a bit of a deep |
| 0:40.8 | dive on Twitter. |
| 0:41.8 | Mike, how does that sound? |
| 0:43.0 | It sounds pretty good. |
| 0:43.9 | I hope people are ready because there's a lot to say about Twitter. |
| 0:48.5 | I know. |
| 0:49.2 | It's like we do our little segment. |
| 0:52.3 | What's Elon Musk up to? |
| 0:57.7 | And this is like an extended, supersized version of what Elon Musk is up to. So I hope y'all are ready. But first, let's talk about what else |
| 1:02.9 | is going on. So this is a little bit delicate. I don't make any kind of judgments about what |
| 1:09.7 | kind of extracurricular internet searching activities, |
| 1:16.2 | listeners, and folks are up to. |
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