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🗓️ 22 November 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about changes to net neutrality that were announced this week. They also talk a little about the digital media bubble and if it’s real, and April will also tell us about how living with a robot is going. We also have Black friday special for you - the hosts will talk with Brian Krebs, an expert on cybercrime - about everything retailers and consumers should know before the big day.
And lastly, Don’t Close My Tabs - Will and April’s picks for best on the web this week.
April’s Tab:https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-making-of-an-american-nazi/544119/
Will’s Tab - https://www.thedailybeast.com/ceo-of-hq-the-hottest-app-going-if-you-run-this-profile-well-fire-our-host
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm April Glazer. |
| 0:12.4 | And I'm Will Aramis. |
| 0:20.7 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to If Then. We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. |
| 0:28.5 | We're recording this on the afternoon of Tuesday, November 21st. On today's show, we'll talk about the changes to net neutrality rules that came to light today. We'll also talk a little bit about |
| 0:37.5 | the digital media bubble, and if that's a real thing, April will tell us about her experience, |
| 0:42.8 | bringing Google into her living room for a week. Later on, we have a Black Friday special for you. |
| 0:47.1 | We'll talk with Brian Krebs, an expert on cybercrime about everything retailers and consumers |
| 0:51.0 | should know before the big day. And lastly, don't close my tabs, |
| 0:54.6 | our picks for the best of the web this week. Will, how are you? I'm doing great. It is 80 degrees |
| 1:00.7 | today in Santa Barbara, California. How are you, April? I'm jealous because I think it's just in the |
| 1:05.8 | 60s here, and to me, that's quite cold in the Bay Area. I'm sure everyone on the East Coast or in the middle |
| 1:12.4 | of the country that's listening to us is grimacing right now. We're sorry. So, Will, |
| 1:18.5 | as always, so much happening this week, but what are you writing about? What really caught |
| 1:24.7 | your eye? All right. So this is going to turn the mood a little more somber, at least for me as a digital journalist. But there has basically become a consensus |
| 1:31.9 | over the past few days that something is wrong in online media. And the evidence for that is that |
| 1:38.9 | we're seeing sort of two things happen at once, I think. One is that two of the brightest stars in online media, BuzzFeed and Vice, these are companies that have attracted lots of investment. |
| 1:49.1 | They've been making lots of money. |
| 1:50.1 | They've been growing really fast. |
| 1:52.1 | They're kind of, you know, they're kind of the models that everybody looks to for how do you make money with news and journalism and content online. |
| 1:59.3 | They both missed their revenue targets by a wide margin, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal last week. |
| 2:04.9 | At the same time, some of the sort of mid-tier online publications that have tried to save their business by doing what has come to be known as the pivot to video. |
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