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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – Bacon Causes Cancer? Sort of. Not Really. Ish. http://www.wired.com/2015/10/who-does-bacon-cause-cancer-sort-of-but-not-really/
• 4:56 – Court: Your Fourth And Fifth Amendment Rights No Longer Exist If You Leave The Country https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151025/09565232619/court-your-fourth-fifth-amendment-rights-no-longer-exist-if-you-leave-country.shtml
• 9:28 – CIA chief ‘outraged’ by personal email hack https://news.yahoo.com/cia-chief-outraged-personal-email-hack-141140389.html

12:25 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The US Department of Justice https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151024/04573732612/doj-claims-apple-should-be-forced-to-decrypt-iphones-because-it-customers-only-license-operating-system.shtml

20:52 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The New York Times https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/27/new-york-times-nail-salon-unvarnished

• How The New York Times’ Flawed Reporting on Nail Salons Closed Opportunities For Undocumented Immigrants (Part 2) https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/28/new-york-times-nir-nail-undocumented
• The New York Times Says Working in Nail Salons Causes Cancer and Miscarriages. The Evidence Says Otherwise. (Part 3) https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/29/nail-salon-health-cancer-miscarriage-nir

This Week’s Quote: “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.” —Mark Twain

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – The Drone Papers https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/
• 14:15 – Students: Transgender Woman Can’t Be Diversity Officer Because She’s a White Man Now http://www.nationalreview.com/article/390425/students-transgender-woman-cant-be-diversity-officer-because-shes-white-man-now
• 17:48 – Musician Demands Google, Major Labels Pay Him $325 Million For Removing Videos He Paid $30 To Upload To Vevo https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151010/13402432497/musician-demands-google-major-labels-pay-him-325-million-removing-videos-he-paid-30-to-upload-to-vevo.shtml

25:41 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sheldon Whitehouse https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151021/15335432591/sheldon-whitehouse-freaks-out-blames-pro-botnet-lobby-rejecting-his-terrible-cfaa-amendment.shtml

31:54 – Idiot Extraordinaire: CNN (nominated by BlameThe1st) http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/19/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-poll/

• Online media vs online polls http://nativenews.tumblr.com/post/131163537671/edieismene-online-media-vs-online-polls
• Sanders Won All Major Polls, But Corp Media Declared http://www.drudge.com/news/192379/sanders-won-all-major-polls-but-corp-media
• Fuming Bernie supporters: Why is CNN deleting our comments? http://mediaequalizer.com/brian-maloney/2015/10/fuming-bernie-supporters-why-is-cnn-deleting-our-comments

This Week’s Quote: “You now have two distinct ways of gathering information beyond what you yourself can experience. One of them is less a medium than an environment—the Internet—with a huge multiplicity of points of view, lots of different ways to find out what’s going on in the world…a cacophony of viewpoints that doesn’t have any political coherence at all, a beautiful melee, but it doesn’t have the capacity to create large blocs of belief. The other medium, TV, has a…very uniform belief block. TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.” —John Perry Barlow

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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

0:27 – Update: LastPass Joins the LogMeIn Family https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/10/lastpass-joins-logmein.html/

News of the Bogus:

• 3:51 – Online Piracy Drops in Australia, Thanks to Netflix https://torrentfreak.com/online-piracy-drops-in-australia-netflix-151014/
• 9:38 – California nixes warrantless search of digital data https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/10/13/california-nixes-warrantless-search-of-digital-data/
• 14:41 – CIA torture survivors sue psychologists who designed infamous program http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/cia-torture-survivors-sue-psychologists-aclu

22:29 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: James Comey https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151011/21185732508/james-comey-says-dozens-terrorists-have-eluded-fbi-thanks-to-encryption.shtml

25:51 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Ben Carson http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/ben-carson-brain-surgeon-or-brain-addled/

37:38 – Tag: PredictIt | Who will win the 2016 U.S. presidential election? https://www.predictit.org/Market/1234/Who-will-win-the-2016-US-presidential-election

This Week’s Quote: “Some might say ‘I don’t care if they violate my privacy; I’ve got nothing to hide.’ Help them understand that they are misunderstanding the fundamental nature of human rights. Nobody needs to justify why they ‘need’ a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right…Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” —Edward Snowden

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Unsealed Transcript Shows How a Judge Justified Ross Ulbricht’s Life Sentence http://motherboard.vice.com/read/unsealed-transcript-shows-how-a-judge-justified-ross-ulbrichts-life-sentence
• 15:02 – Doctors Without Borders wants airstrike inquiry http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/07/asia/doctors-without-borders-afghanistan-airstrike/
  • Doctors Without Borders airstrike: US alters story for fourth time in four days  http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/06/doctors-without-borders-airstrike-afghanistan-us-account-changes-again
• 21:48 – Harvard’s prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates  http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/07/harvards-prestigious-debate-team-loses-to-new-york-prison-inmates
  • At HLS, a conference on the free market mindset http://today.law.harvard.edu/at-hls-a-conference-on-the-free-market-mindset/

27:44 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Doug Saffir http://ctboom.com/connecticut-cracking-down-on-e-cigarettes-but-not-quite-enough/

34:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Francisco Rangel http://panampost.com/panam-staff/2015/10/02/venezuelan-governor-suggests-eating-fried-rocks-amid-shortages/

This Week’s Quote: “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be…Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself—educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.” —Doris Lessing

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Co-Host: Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Libertarian and Green parties sue the Commission on Presidential Debates for a spot on the stage http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/29/libertarian-and-green-parties-sue-commission-presi/
• 8:47 – New Jersey High Court Rolls Back State Standard for Warrantless Car Searches http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2015/09/25/new-jersey-high-court-rolls-back-state-standard-for-warrantless-car-searches/
• 15:03 – Zuckerberg reassures Merkel on hate speech http://www.thelocal.de/20150928/zuckerberg-promises-merkel-hell-fight-hate-comments
  • Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn and more take aim at cyber harassment against women in new report http://www.polygon.com/2015/9/25/9399169/united-nations-women-cyber-violence-anita-sarkeesian-zoe-quinn
  • Woman Falsely Accuses Man of Rape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2zQAnIpdvs
  • Biurny Gonzalez Pleads Guilty to Perjury in Rape Charge http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/nyregion/08freed.html
  • Black policeman protects KKK members https://kindnessblogdotcom1.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/1983-e28093-austin-texas-this-policeman-protects-kkk-members-during-a-rally-as-protestors-were-closing-in-on-them.jpg

25:25 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Toronto Sun https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150925/11322732361/toronto-sun-we-value-criticism-voice-reader-so-much-were-killing-both.shtml

34:43 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Laurent Fabius http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/apocalypse-watch-504-days-and-no-climate-chaos/

This Week’s Quote: “In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.” —Mark Twain

43:10 – Tag: The Superplex Bros http://superplexbros.com/review-super-mario-bros-nintendo-entertainment-system/

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Update:

0:24 – All the ‘Happy Birthday’ song copyright claims are invalid, federal judge rules http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-happy-birthday-song-lawsuit-decision-20150922-story.html

News of the Bogus:

• 1:34 – Presidential Candidate Lawrence Lessig Steps Up To Assist Kim Dotcom https://torrentfreak.com/presidential-candidate-lawrence-lessig-steps-up-to-assist-kim-dotcom-150916/
  • Kim Dotcom case is ’simple fraud’, court told http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/24/kim-dotcom-case-is-simple-court-told
  • U.S. Uncovers Kim Dotcom’s Self-incriminating Skype Calls https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-uncovers-kim-dotcoms-self-incriminating-skype-calls-150924/
• 7:26 – TSA Doesn’t Care That Its Luggage Locks Have Been Hacked https://theintercept.com/2015/09/17/tsa-doesnt-really-care-luggage-locks-hacked/
  • Obama faces growing momentum to support widespread encryption https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/tech-trade-agencies-push-to-disavow-law-requiring-decryption-of-phones/2015/09/16/1fca5f72-5adf-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html
• 13:11 – George W. Bush Tried To Retroactively Declare Illegal, Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance Legal, Because He Said So https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150921/11301932319/george-w-bush-tried-to-retroactively-declare-illegal-unconstitutional-nsa-surveillance-legal-because-he-said-so.shtml

17:18 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: NYPD Union President Patrick J. Lynch http://www.capitalnewyork.com/sites/default/files/PatLynchLetter1.pdf

22:05 – Idiot Extraordinaire: PETA https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150922/11063332329/monkey-business-peta-sues-behalf-monkey-selfie-claims-copyright-belongs-to-monkey.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “When we’ve got these people who have practically limitless powers within a society, if they get a pass without so much as a slap on the wrist, what example does that set for the next group of officials that come into power? To push the lines a little bit further, a little bit further, a little bit further, and we’ll realize that we’re no longer citizens—we’re subjects.” —Edward Snowden

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Co-host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – First Library To Support Tor Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150910/13090332217/first-library-to-support-tor-anonymous-internet-browsing-effort-stops-after-dhs-email.shtml
  • New Hampshire Library Rejects DHS Fearmongering, Turns Tor Back On https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150915/23161932266/new-hampshire-library-rejects-dhs-fearmongering-turns-tor-back.shtml
• 9:53 – The FCC Imposes Netflix’s Broadband Policy  http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fcc-imposes-netflixs-broadband-policy-1441149876
• 18:47 – U.S. Drops Charges That Professor Shared Technology With China http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/us/politics/us-drops-charges-that-professor-shared-technology-with-china.html

24:59 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: GCHQ http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/stop-using-difficulttoguess-passwords-uks-spying-agency-gchq-recommends-10497048.html

34:04 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin (nominated by Travis Retriever) https://theintercept.com/2015/09/15/richard-glossip-set-to-die/

• Richard Glossip Stay Of Execution Dismissed http://news.sky.com/story/1553236/richard-glossip-stay-of-execution-dismissed
• Richard Glossip Execution Is Halted by Oklahoma Court http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/us/richard-glossip-execution-oklahoma.html

This Week’s Quote: “The day is coming when we will be certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that we’ve executed an innocent person. On that day, we’re all murderers.” —Penn Jillette

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Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte, Matt Page, and Jeremiah Harding

IP Special:

• The Superplex Bros vs. Teespring http://superplexbros.com/superplex-bros-vs-teespring-the-complete-story/
  • T-Shirts, The Superplex Bros https://www.teepublic.com/show/281387-the-superplex-bros-german-suplex-shirt
  • File:Nintendo.svg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nintendo.svg
  • Wikipedia:Public domain – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain#Fonts_and_typefaces
• 12:19 – WordPress Adds Subaru to Takedown “Hall of Shame” https://torrentfreak.com/wordpress-adds-subaru-to-takedown-hall-of-shame-150908/
• 22:14 – Getty Images Tries To Copyright Troll 2600 Magazine Over Content It Has No Copyright Over https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150908/18123432199/getty-images-tries-to-copyright-troll-2600-magazine-over-content-it-has-no-copyright-over.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 1:07 – US Govt. Denies Responsibility for Megaupload’s Servers https://torrentfreak.com/us-govt-denies-responsibility-for-megauploads-servers-150901/
• 7:10 – What reporter Will Ockenden’s metadata reveals about his life http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-24/metadata-what-you-found-will-ockenden/6703626
• 13:42 – Video Game Developers Face the Final Boss: The FDA http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/video-game-developers-face-final-boss-the-fda/

21:53 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Konami (nominatd by Dave Turcotte) http://ps4daily.com/2015/09/kojima-retweets-fan-made-mgs-5-pic-konami-files-copyright-claim/

• 危ない Wolf on Twitter: “la li lu le lo ! @Kojima_Hideo @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN made by the amazing ❤ @DesertmanDrake https://twitter.com/all_snake/status/638215295396655104
• Everything The Same Is Infringing: How Hugh Hefner Used Mario Bros. To Show YouTube’s Copyright System Sucks https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150831/05364632117/everything-same-is-infringing-how-hugh-hefner-used-mario-bros-to-show-youtubes-copyright-system-sucks.shtml

26:23 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Cumberland County, NC Sheriff’s Office http://reason.com/blog/2015/09/02/teen-boy-will-be-charged-as-adult-for-ha

This Week’s Quote: “Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.” —Mark Twain

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever
Special Appearance By Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – At Virginia shooting, NRA, where were good guys? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-virginia-tv-crew-shooting-huppke-20150826-story.html
  • Auditing Shooting Rampage Statistics http://dailyanarchist.com/2012/07/31/auditing-shooting-rampage-statistics/
• 19:24 – Google ordered to remove links to stories about Google removing links to stories
  http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/08/google-ordered-to-remove-links-to-stories-about-google-removing-links-to-stories/
  • Google Disappears Techdirt Article About Right To Be Forgotten Due To Right To Be Forgotten Request https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150824/13495432050/google-disappears-techdirt-article-about-right-to-be-forgotten-due-to-right-to-be-forgotten-request.shtml
  • As Part Of Its War On Encryption, Russia Briefly Blocks All Of Wikipedia Over One Weed Reference https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150814/07293231941/as-part-war-encryption-russia-briefly-blocks-all-wikipedia-over-one-weed-reference.shtml
• 27:11 – Government Dismisses Its Case After Warrantless Airport Laptop Search http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/government-dismisses-its-case-after-88947/

30:51 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Twitter https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150824/11143432048/twitters-excuse-shutting-down-services-that-highlight-deleted-politicians-tweets-is-painfully-ridiculous.shtml

35:02 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Richard Eskow http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eskow20150821
How To Argue For Immigration Restrictions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0mx-uGH_HA

This Week’s Quote: “Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.” —George Santayana