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4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Revealing Zello's role in last week's riot, making a case for deplatforming, and exploring the idea of responsible social media.

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0:00.0

Everybody's marching on the Capitol, all million of us.

0:03.0

We're about two blocks away from it now, and police are doing nothing.

0:06.0

They're not even trying to stop us at this point.

0:08.0

New tape shows insurrectionists using the app Zello to coordinate the riot on the Capitol.

0:14.0

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

0:18.0

And I'm Bob Garfield.

0:20.0

After years of incitement, Donald Trump has

0:22.9

finally been de-platforms from social media to the world of commerce. He has lost the ability to

0:29.3

sell merchandise through Shopify. He's no longer able to process payments through Stripe. He's

0:36.4

even lost access to email tools that he used for fundraising.

0:40.3

Plus, how to build healthier digital spaces by taking lessons from how we design our physical

0:47.4

public ones. We reserve very little of that space for walking up to strangers and arguing

0:52.4

with them about politics. And that's, that's probably good.

0:56.1

It's all coming up after this.

1:01.1

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

1:05.4

I'm Bob Garfield.

1:06.6

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

1:08.3

More than a week since the deadly siege on the Capitol,

1:11.6

a series of revelations has shed more light on what happened.

1:15.6

As of this writing, we know the identities of roughly a hundred of the insurrectionists,

1:20.5

including a man whose presence has become emblematic of the intent beyond the siege.

1:26.7

His name is Eric Munchal, known mostly as zip tie guy.

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