Media Roots Radio - Occupy Silicon Valley & the Missing Outrage Over Private Sector Spying

Media Roots Radio

Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2014

⏱️ 149 minutes

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Summary

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the potentiality of an ‘Occupy Silicon Valley’ protest movement in a similar mold to ‘Occupy Oakland’ taking place in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. They address the ethical issues revolving around tech-companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Soundcloud and debunk the notion that private corporations will install privacy safeguards on their own without the pressure of public consumer outrage. Robbie goes into the history of Silicon Valley’s roots, which tie directly to the Pentagon’s post-WWII defense industry private sector push. For more information visit http://www.mediaroots.org/media-roots-radio-occupy-silicon-valley-the-missing-outrage-over-private-sector-spying/

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	Magic,
0:08.0	drag,
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0:13.0	Mour Welcome to Media Roots Radio.
0:39.1	This is Robbie Martin.
0:40.1	And this is Abby Martin.
0:42.6	How's it going, Abby?
0:44.1	It's going good. It's going good.
0:46.1	I know that you've been wanting to do this podcast for a while.
0:50.6	We've been following, of course, all the NSA leaks.
0:55.0	We've been covering that a lot on media roots and on breaking the set.
0:58.0	And my brother and I have been talking a lot about why haven't we seen kind of the resurrection of Occupy on the tech industry in wake of all these leaks and everything that shows the partnership between the tech industry and the government.
1:13.7	A couple days ago, activists actually occupied, quote unquote occupied set up some tents in front
1:19.8	of the Google headquarters.
1:22.0	Was it even, I think they actually did it on the campus.
1:24.4	Oh, on the campus.
1:25.3	Yeah, inside the, because it's like a giant sprawling, like, outdoor campus with a big open space in the campus. Oh, on the campus. Yeah, inside the, because it's like a giant sprawling, like outdoor campus with a big
1:30.7	open space in the middle.
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