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Co-Host: John Petersen

News of the Bogus:

• 0:52 – White noise video on YouTube hit by five copyright claims http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42580523
• 7:05 – German hate speech law tested as Twitter blocks satire account https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-hatecrime/german-hate-speech-law-tested-as-twitter-blocks-satire-account-idUSKBN1ES1AT
• 10:55 – Shocked, Shocked To Learn The Patent Office Is Structurally Designed To Approve Sh*t Patents https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171228/17052738897/shocked-shocked-to-learn-patent-office-is-structurally-designed-to-approve-shit-patents.shtml

15:37 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jeff Sessions https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/jeff-sessions-marijuana-reversal-brings-swift-bipartisan-condemnation-w514983

18:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The European Commission https://torrentfreak.com/tech-companies-meet-ec-to-discuss-removal-of-pirate-illegal-content-180109/

This Week’s Quote: “Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:57 – Judge denies QUT admin’s 18C racism appeal http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/03/03/judge-denies-qut-admins-18c-racism-appeal
• 5:30 – Errata Security: Some comments on the Wikileaks CIA/#vault7 leak http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/03/some-comments-on-wikileaks-ciavault7.html
• 15:00 – Soundcloud Tells Guy It Needs To Kill His Account Of 8 Years Because Someone Else Trademarked His Name https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170301/11320736819/soundcloud-tells-guy-it-needs-to-kill-his-account-8-years-because-someone-else-trademarked-his-name.shtml
  • Nissan.com – Lawsuit – The Story http://www.nissan.com/Lawsuit/The_Story.php

20:23 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Donald Trump (nominated by BlameThe1st) https://indy100.com/article/donald-trump-statements-fact-check-congress-address-work-unemployment-latest-checking-7605351

26:20 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Mike Pence https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/03/mike-pence-used-an-aol-e-mail-account-for-state-business-and-it-got-hacked/

• Vice President Fails To Demand An FBI Investigation After His Private Email Account Is Hacked https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170303/09045036828/vice-president-fails-to-demand-fbi-investigation-after-his-private-email-account-is-hacked.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.” —Robert A. Heinlein

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – Brexit ‘2nd Referendum Petition’ A 4 Chan Prank: BBC Report It As Real https://heatst.com/uk/exclusive-brexit-2nd-referendum-petition-a-4-chan-prank-bbc-report-it-as-real/
• 7:19 – Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Case, IP-Address Doesn’t Prove Anything https://torrentfreak.com/judge-dismisses-movie-piracy-case-ip-address-doesnt-prove-anything-160627/
• 11:46 – Court Rules the FBI Does Not Need a Warrant to Hack a Computer http://motherboard.vice.com/read/court-rules-the-fbi-does-not-need-a-warrant-to-hack-a-computer
  • Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/federal-court-fourth-amendment-does-not-protect-your-home-computer

19:12 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Hillary Clinton https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160628/05570734838/hillary-clintons-tech-policy-plan-includes-some-empty-broadband-promises-continued-war-encryption.shtml

• Top Donors data for Hillary Clinton, 2016 Cycle https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contrib.php?id=N00000019&cycle=2016&type=f&src=c

26:51 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Comodo Group, Inc. https://letsencrypt.org/2016/06/23/defending-our-brand.html

This Week’s Quote: “Before September 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras…would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.” —Jeffrey Rosen

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With Chris Hangartner, Jonathan Loesche, Jakob Morris, Travis Retriever, Charles Thomas, and Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 2:25 – Rand Paul stages filibuster for Patriot Act: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/05/21/408417139/sen-rand-paul-stages-filibuster-to-protest-patriot-act
  • Edward Snowden praises Rand Paul: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-21/edward-snowden-praises-rand-paul-s-anti-patriot-act-filibuster-
• 11:20 – GM claims it owns your car: http://consumerist.com/2015/05/20/gm-that-car-you-bought-were-really-the-ones-who-own-it/
• 17:48 – Richland’s $4.1 million dollar police station paid for through civil forfeiture: http://watchdog.org/218867/civil-forfeiture/
• 27:11 – Washington Post lies about Amtrak: http://thefederalist.com/2015/05/13/why-is-the-washington-posts-philip-bump-lying-to-readers-about-amtrak/
• 39:46 – Boondoggle HQ: The $25 Million Building in Afghanistan Nobody Needed: http://gizmodo.com/boondoggle-hq-the-25-million-building-in-afghanistan-1706077195

51:30 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Habersham County Sheriff’s Office: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/infant-responsible-grenade-thrown-face/

1:05:20 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Kerri Rivera: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/quack-defends-bleach-enemas-to-cure-autism-if-its-poison-where-is-the-sea-of-dead-children/

1:15:29 – Tag: Let’s Take A Look At Andrew McCutchen’s Pay Stub: http://deadspin.com/lets-take-a-look-at-andrew-mccutchens-pay-stub-1706188663

This Week’s Quote: “F— you people who think the government should intervene more!” —Penn Jillette

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Co-Hosts: Travis Retriever and Chris Hangartner

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News of the Bogus:

• 3:01 – This Prof Dared to Challenge Her Students’ Views on Sex. Here’s How They Retaliated. http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/15/this-prof-dared-to-challenge-her-student
• 12:55 – EFF Busts Podcasting Patent, Invalidating Key Claims at Patent Office https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-busts-podcasting-patent-invalidating-key-claims-patent-office
• 18:23 – Stop making the NSA the bogeyman of privacy http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/04/stop-making-nsa-bogeyman-of-privacy.html
  • U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/04/07/dea-bulk-telephone-surveillance-operation/70808616/
  • Turns Out Feds Actually Tracked Most International Calls For Nearly A Decade Before 9/11 — Didn’t Stop The Attack https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150407/17213830578/turns-out-feds-actually-tracked-most-international-calls-nearly-decade-before-911-didnt-stop-attack.shtml
• 26:03 – New South Wales Attacks Researchers Who Found Internet Voting Vulnerabilities  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/new-south-wales-attacks-researchers-who-warned-internet-voting-vulnerabilities
  • Response to Ian Brightwell https://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/brightwell/
  • Tampering with US voting machine as easy as ‘abcde’, audit finds https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/04/17/tampering-with-us-voting-machine-as-easy-as-abcde-says-virginia-report/
• 44:09 – Big Media Companies Insist That VPN Services Violate Copyright Law https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150408/17453230597/big-media-companies-insist-that-vpn-services-violate-copyright-law.shtml
  • TV Companies Will Sue VPN Providers “In Days” http://torrentfreak.com/tv-companies-will-sue-vpn-providers-in-days-150417/

53:38 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Thomas Piketty http://fee.org/freeman/detail/picking-piketty-apart

1:01:48 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Lisa Wade http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/03/25/are-economics-majors-anti-social/

This Week’s Quote: “The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.” —Joan Robinson

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Co-Host: Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 0:54 – Key Senator Leahy drops patent reform bill for now http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/21/us-usa-patents-congress-idUSBREA4K0T920140521
  • Infamous scanner “patent troll” seeks sanctions—against the government http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/infamous-scanner-patent-troll-seeks-sanctions-against-the-government/
• 7:37 – Madagascar Against Monsanto: Madagascar Pranks March Against Monsanto – What is the difference? http://madagainstmonsanto.blogspot.com/2014/05/madagascar-pranks-march-against.html
• 15:50 – U.S. Food Inflation Running at 22% http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/24/U-S-Food-Inflation-Running-at-22
  • Deflating Food Package Sizes is Evidence of Inflation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7BOdS3unpg

20:56 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Richard Martinez http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/father-of-victim-in-santa-barbara-shootings-to-politicians-i-dont-care-about-your-sympathy/2014/05/27/8a030d10-e5ad-11e3-a86b-362fd5443d19_story.html

• Brady Campaign 2013 Scorecard http://www.bradycampaign.org/sites/default/files/SCGLM-Final10-spreads-points.pdf

31:12 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Big Earl’s Restaurant http://happyplace.someecards.com/lgbt/a-tx-restaurant-slurred-and-banned-a-gay-couple-and-theyre-sticking-to-it-their-yelp-page-is-now-fabulous/

This Week’s Quote: “Segregation was enforced in the South precisely because so many people were opposed to segregation. You don’t pass a law to force people to do what they would do anyway…Without a law mandating segregation, the first white company to hire black workers and serve all customers would have set in motion a train of events that would have made segregation impossible.” —Harry Browne

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:25 – Supreme Court Ruling On Gene Patenting May Be A Boon For Biotech Startups http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/supreme-court-ruling-on-gene-patenting-may-be-a-boon-for-biotech-startups/
• 2:20 – The Supreme Court Decided Your Silence Can Be Used Against You http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/supreme-court-salinas-v-texas-ruling-explained/66309/

• 7:55 – ‘The worst case of scientific censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of Galileo’: Scientists call for drugs to be legalised to allow proper study of their properties http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-worst-case-of-scientific-censorship-since-the-catholic-church-banned-the-works-of-galileo-scientists-call-for-drugs-to-be-legalised-to-allow-proper-study-of-their-properties-8654514.html
  • A clear danger from cannabis http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/29/cannabis-schizophrenia-classification

12:15 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: San Francisco International Airport http://news.yahoo.com/rental-car-co-run-teenagers-undercuts-hertz-avis-142119464.html

15:25 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Rep. John Larson (D-CT) http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/06/13/democrat-not-fair-to-subject-congress-to-obamacare-just-like-everyone-else/

This Week’s Quote: “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.” —P.J. O’Rourke