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🗓️ 8 November 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss the news that YouTube has been showing disturbing videos to kids and why this might be a symptom of a much deeper problem for Internet companies. They also talk about the recent revelations from the Paradise Papers and how new details pertain to companies like Twitter and Apple. The hosts are also joined by Mercer University Professor Whitney Phillips. She’s the author of “This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture.”
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm April Glazer. |
| 0:16.6 | And I'm Will Oremus. |
| 0:23.9 | Hey, everyone. And I'm Will Oremus. Hey everyone, welcome to If Den. |
| 0:25.8 | We're coming to you from Slate in Future Tense, |
| 0:27.7 | a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. |
| 0:31.6 | We're recording this on the afternoon of Tuesday, November 7th. |
| 0:34.7 | On today's show, we're going to talk about news this week of YouTube |
| 0:37.5 | showing seriously creepy videos to kids on its YouTube kids app, why this might be a symptom of a |
| 0:43.3 | much deeper problem for internet companies. We'll also talk about the recent revelations from the so-called |
| 0:48.1 | Paradise Papers about how Apple is moving its hordes of money around the world, potentially to |
| 0:53.1 | minimize its tax bill. |
| 0:54.8 | Are these practices illegal? |
| 0:56.1 | And why does it matter? |
| 0:57.4 | Later on, we'll be joined by Assistant Professor Whitney Phillips from Mercer University. |
| 1:01.8 | She's the author of the book, This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Mapping the relationship |
| 1:06.2 | between online trolling and mainstream culture. |
| 1:09.0 | And then we'll end with, as always, don't close my tabs, |
| 1:11.9 | some recommendations of the best stuff we read this week from your hosts. Okay, so podcast number |
| 1:18.4 | two, we got our first one down and we got a lot of positive feedback. We got some constructive |
| 1:23.9 | kodicism, but overall, it seems like people don't hate us, which I always consider |
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