Media Roots Radio - Video Game Warfare, Iran Covert War, SOPA & Fair Use

Media Roots Radio

Abby & Robbie Martin

News

4.6 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2012

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Abby and Robbie discuss the reality of war: the pre-propaganda that has manufactured consent for the illegal occupations, video game warfare and cognitive dissonance in combat, the Marine urination scandal; Martin Luther King Jr. and historical revisionism minimizing how anti-imperialism was the main pillar of his philosophical platform; the CIA and the US covert war in Iran; SOPA, PIPA breakdown, the difference between copyright and fair use, the threat to net neutrality and websites like Media Roots under this overarching legislation. http://www.mediaroots.org/video-game-warfare-cia-covert-war-in-iran-fair-use-sopa.php http://www.mediaroots.org

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The I'm I'm I'm
0:21.6	I'm
0:23.6	I'm
0:24.6	I'm Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is your host, Robbie Martin.
0:53.3	And Abby Martin.
0:58.7	And we're doing an episode before we do our World War II episode because we're just, just a lot of work to put into,
1:05.0	and we're still trying to make sure that it's the best it can possibly be before we do it.
1:09.9	So there's a lot of stuff going on right now.
1:12.6	Covert war with Iran, breaking bad style magnetic bomb assassinations on Iranian nuclear scientists.
1:19.6	For anyone who wants to know what that breaking Brad reference was and hasn't seen the show yet, don't look it up.
1:26.6	The Stop Online Piracy Act, which was being debated in Congress and the Senate.
1:32.3	Over 7,000 websites blocked out their site today in protest of the bill.
1:36.8	And we're going to talk later about how that's, you know, why it's such an outright assault
1:41.3	on net neutrality and free speech on the internet and why
1:45.1	media routes would be a prime example of the type of site that would be targeted for aggregating
1:49.9	copyright material.
1:50.9	So it's really important to explain what these bills are, why they're so dangerous, and
1:55.9	why they're still a threat even though they might be, you know, they might not pass per se,
2:00.4	but what's going to be,
2:01.6	what are they going to be drafted into later and formulated later with the same principles?
2:05.6	So that's what we should really be aware about.
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