TikTok surveillance plan revealed; Fresh & Fit manosphere podcast demonetized & emasculated; Elon is blocking links and faking followers; Court affirms copyrights are for humans, not AI; and more — NEWS ROUNDUP
There Are No Girls on the Internet
iHeartPodcasts
4.1 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Welcome our producer Joey Patt, who is joining Bridget for their first news roundup!
Fresh & Fit, misogynistic manosphere podcast and enemies of the pod, demonetized on YouTube: https://www.insider.com/fresh-and-fit-host-cries-when-announcing-podcast-demonetization-2023-8
Bridget’s piece on Fresh & Fit from the Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/toxic-podcasting/
DON’T MISS: Bridget’s long, petty take on Fresh & Fit on the patreon! https://www.patreon.com/tangoti
Tik Tok’s draft plan with the Biden Administration revealed, would give U.S. government broad censorship powers that should make all Americans uncomfortable: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/08/21/draft-tiktok-cfius-agreement/?sh=3ee00abe112a
Have you ever taken an Uber or gotten Instacart and then had a worker contact you to hit on you after the fact, and they could because they have your information? Yuck, right? Well you are not alone, sadly: https://www.businessinsider.com/delivery-drivers-asking-customers-sex-dates-2023-8?r=US&IR=T&utm_source=reddit.com
Can AI creative work be copyrighted? NO. Silly rabbit, copyrights are for humans! https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-generated-art-cant-by-copyrighted-federal-judge-rules-2023-8
Elon wants to remove headlines on news articles on Twitter: https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/22/x-is-planning-to-hide-headlines-from-news-links-for-improved-aesthetics/
And maybe he’s making his terrible jokes on Twitter to nobody because his followers are fake... https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-inactive-followers-whole-x-platform
And he’s asking for your government ID (please don’t give it to him)
New data about autonomous vehicles is scary: https://gizmodo.com/driverless-cars-worse-kids-dark-skinned-people-study-1850770302
Autostraddle and independent queer media: https://defector.com/autostraddle-to-be-acquired-by-queer-wellness-company-for-hem
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:17.7 | Today, I am not joined by my producer, Mike. I am joined by my producer, Joey Pat. |
| 0:23.7 | You don't always hear Joey's voice on the show, but you do hear their phenomenal editing |
| 0:29.1 | and their phenomenal, I don't know, internet cultural takes. We talked about Joey's |
| 0:34.8 | appearance on the podcast Stuff Mom Ever Told You, really doing a phenomenal and thoughtful job breaking down that kids' online safety act that we're all discussing on the show. |
| 0:44.6 | Joey, thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:46.9 | Hey, thank you, Bridget, for having me on. Super excited. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm excited, too. So first, I would love to just sort of let folks get to know you. What is your experience like on the internet? What do you care about online? What brings you to conversations on the internet? For sure, yeah. So I, again, my name is Joey. I am a producer here at I Heart. I work on a couple different shows. I do work on a stuff mom never told you, told you, like Bridgett said. Should check out that |
| 1:12.4 | episode if you can. But yeah, I am very much an internet kind of person, a very chronically |
| 1:19.8 | online person. I will call myself sometimes, not necessarily in a positive way, but I, you know, |
| 1:26.2 | I am Gen Z. I'm an older Gen Z person, so I grew up with social media more or less, like, in high, |
| 1:31.1 | I don't know, I got on social media on, like, high school, I guess that's more or less |
| 1:34.9 | going up with social media. |
| 1:37.3 | Anyways, I was a big, like, you know, I was really into Tumblr back in the day when |
| 1:41.4 | that was a big thing. |
| 1:43.6 | I personally, you know, if you've |
| 1:47.7 | listened to Smitty, you know this. I'm a big, like, fandom person. So that always was my |
| 1:51.5 | introduction to like social media sites and all of that. I am still on Twitter, unfortunately, |
| 1:58.6 | hanging on. We'll see. |
| 2:02.0 | Although, I don't know. |
| 2:02.9 | That might be ending soon. |
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