Original Nader’s Raider, Robert Fellmeth, expands upon his open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, demanding that we should know who is talking to us on Facebook. Also, Executive Director of the Museum of Tort Law, Richard Newman, joins us to argue for an ordinary person’s right to have their day in court as he promotes Tort Law Day on October 5th.
Facebook Anonymity/Your Day in Court
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
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🗓️ 21 September 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Robert Fellmeth has had a long and distinguished career as a public advocate. As a graduate student in the late sixties, he became the original Nader’s Raider, investigating the Federal Trade Commission. He then went on to work as an attorney in Ralph’s office, the Center for the Study of Responsive Law. In 1980, he founded The Center for Public Interest Law at the University of San Diego Law School and also founded the Children’s Advocacy Institute, an organization that specializes in reforming the child protection and foster care systems and improving outcomes for youth aging out of foster care.
“We need to know if that message popping up on a device eight inches from our faces is from a Russian bot or the Koch Brothers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, or our favorite pizza place.”
Robert Fellmeth in his open letter to Mark Zuckerberg
Richard Newman is the Executive Director of the American Museum of Tort Law. He is a consumer attorney who practices in Connecticut. He has served as the President of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association.
“Tort Law Day is an innovative new program, and we hope it will be a model for cities and communities all around the country. The idea is that tort law affects directly or indirectly everyone in this country, because of dangerous or defective products, unsafe conduct, malpractice, whatever it might be, people are at risk. And tort law is the mechanism that lets them defend themselves from wrongful injuries.”
Richard Newman, promoting the first annual Tort Law Day, October 5th 2019
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.0 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:07.0 | You've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrove Analog to my co-host David. |
| 0:17.8 | Hello David. Good morning. And we also have the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome everybody. |
| 0:23.8 | First up on the program today, we welcome back old friend Robert Feldman, |
| 0:27.8 | the original Nader's raider. |
| 0:29.9 | He is not only one of the leading, if not the leading, |
| 0:32.5 | child welfare advocates in the country. |
| 0:34.7 | He has also been campaigning for quite some time |
| 0:37.4 | now about the hazards of anonymity on the internet. |
| 0:41.5 | In a recent open letter to the founder of Facebook, Robert |
| 0:44.3 | Falmouth wrote to Mark Zuckerberg that, quote, we need to know if that message |
| 0:50.2 | popping up on a device eight inches from our faces is from a Russian bot or the |
| 0:55.1 | Koch brothers house speaker Nancy Pelosi or our favorite pizza place unquote |
| 1:00.3 | a couple years ago we spoke to Bob about this topic and Ralph wanted to know if there was a way to draw a line to protect whistleblowers and other speakers who criticized the powerful without fear of retaliation while also protecting the readers or the listeners right to know who's |
| 1:14.7 | speaking to them. We'll get an update on all of that with Mr. Falmouth and as a |
| 1:19.7 | bonus we welcome back Richard Newman who is the executive director of the Museum of |
| 1:24.5 | Tort Law which you may have heard us mention on the show a few times he's going to |
| 1:29.2 | tell us about the first annual Tort Law Day being celebrated at the museum this coming October and |
| 1:34.6 | how having Wednesday in court is such an essential component to a functioning |
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