Jordan Peterson copies Countess Luann; Elon Musk mutes critics and threatens removing the block button; ChatGPT bans books in Iowa schools; Illinois law protects kidfluencers; Wisconsin bill infantilizes adults; $1 billion fine for online harassment campaign; YouTube policy against cancer lies is big if true — NEWS ROUNDUP
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Listen to TANGOTI producer Joey Patt talk with the hosts of Stuff Mom Never Told You to break down why the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is actually a threat to kids and the to the Internet: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-is-kosa-and-why-is-it-so-scary/id304531053?i=1000624187418
New Illinois law entitles kid influencers to earnings: https://fortune.com/2023/08/13/social-media-influencer-law-illinois-kids-sue-parents/
Iowa educators use ChatGPT to identify naughty books: https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/
Jury awards Jane Doe 1 Billion dollars in damaged in vast online abuse campaign: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ex-boyfriend-explicit-photos-lawsuit_n_64da58f4e4b030f54dc70598
In a spectacularly ill conceived bill, Wisconsin state Senator wants to assume all Internet users are children and enforce lights out at 10pm: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/14/wisconsin-pushing-bill-that-requires-websites-to-treat-all-users-as-if-theyre-children/
Elon Musk throttles traffic to sites that criticize him because he loves free speech: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/
YouTube announces a policy to remove cancer misinformation; sounds great but will they enforce it?: https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/15/23832603/youtube-cancer-treatment-misinformation-policy-medical
Don't forget: emergency contraception is legal in all 50 states (plus DC!): https://www.americansocietyforec.org/
Jordan Peterson is cherry picking his blurbs: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66520089
Where do you think he got that idea? LUANN: https://pagesix.com/2019/10/23/reviewer-talks-luann-de-lesseps-license-with-review-of-her-cabaret-show/
Don't miss out: Claim your share of the class action lawsuit against Facebook for improperly sharing your data (link is a redirect to the official site): www.TANGOTI.com/zuckbucks
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| 0:00.0 | There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's what you may have missed this week on the Internet. |
| 0:20.1 | So technically, this happened late last week, but honestly, I'm dying to discuss it anyway, so we're going to cheat a little bit and add it to the roster. |
| 0:28.3 | So we talked about the dangers and complexities around social media accounts that use children as their focus. |
| 0:33.8 | Children cannot consent, but that does not keep parents from building followings, sometimes huge followings, and making real money off of their kids on social media. |
| 0:44.9 | If you listen to the episode that we did with Sarah, also known as Moms Uncharted on TikTok, we'll put that episode in the show notes. |
| 0:50.9 | We talked all about the complexities and dangers of why she actually says |
| 0:55.6 | that people who are influencers and have their entire influencer career based around their kids, |
| 1:01.1 | why she doesn't think that's the safest idea. And one of those reasons is because of the lack |
| 1:05.3 | of legislation around how kids can be used on social media for money. That is, until now. Late last week, |
| 1:12.6 | Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to take some legislative steps to ensure that kids |
| 1:16.6 | who make money from social media are compensated for their work from their parents. That law will go |
| 1:22.2 | into effect in July of next year. So we have child labor laws in this country, or at least |
| 1:27.4 | in some parts of the |
| 1:28.9 | country anyway, and child performers who are models or actors typically have laws that |
| 1:35.0 | legislate how their work is performed. They can only work so many hours at a time, and the money |
| 1:39.2 | that they earn legally has to be set aside for them in some cases. But this is not the case when it comes to |
| 1:45.0 | social media. It's one of those situations where the reality progresses a lot more quickly than the |
| 1:50.9 | laws can and the laws really need to catch up. And that's exactly what's happening in Illinois. |
| 1:55.6 | The new law in Illinois is the first to specifically legislate how kids can show up for money on social media. |
| 2:02.4 | So this is not a law that is meant to legislate folks who are just like sharing the occasional |
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