Media Roots Radio - Facebook, Information Age, Technology, NDAA, GOP Race

Media Roots Radio

Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2011

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Abby & Robbie Martin discuss the age of information in the 21st century and philosophize what the ability to instantaneously connect with people worldwide has done to modern society; the subjectivity of "truth" as history becomes re-written with every passing generation; Alan Moore v. Frank Miller on Occupy Wall Street; The passing of the new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that allows the indefinite detention of American citizens; the GOP race as a parody of itself with the candidates running and how voting for Ron Paul would be a fun social experiment if nothing else than to spoil the GOP primary. For more information go to: http://mediaroots.org/facebook-technology-information-truth-gop-race-ndaa.php

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is your host, Abigail Martin.
1:01.5	This is your co-host, Robert Martin, aka Forrestick-Cray.
1:06.4	We're brother and sister in case people haven't figured that out by now. I just thought I mentioned that.
1:12.3	Yeah, so for a little social experiment, I decided to delete my Facebook account.
1:18.3	And as I was doing it, and it run media roots through a dummy account.
1:22.3	But as I was deactivating my account, Facebook literally was like pleading me to stay.
1:27.2	It was like, no, don't go.
1:29.1	Like flashing all these slideshows of different photos of me with friends.
1:32.3	Like, Robbie's going to miss you.
1:34.3	Tyler's going to miss you.
1:35.6	Don't leave.
1:36.8	It was like such like a weird guilt thing.
1:39.4	And like deactivating it.
1:40.5	Digital guilt.
1:41.4	Digital guilt time from a computer.
1:44.7	So yeah, it's, so what you're basically saying is that, which we already knew, but you never
1:50.2	experienced yourself, is that Facebook doesn't delete your account.
1:54.8	They keep it forever.
1:56.2	And you just, when you log in after you deactivated it, it just automatically reactivated it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:02.7	So I deactivated it on my home computer. And then since I just had automatic logins on my
2:07.2	laptop and stuff, I just sign on my laptop for the first time today. And it just automatically
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