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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – DECEMBER 24, 2024  
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December 24, 2024
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_ How strong is the First Amendment? _

Credit, Rob Rogers

 

* Trump 2.0 Lowers the Boom
* Goliath vs Goliath
* Crypto Crisis Coming?
* Carding Pornhub Users
* Rightist Podcasting: From Rush to Rogan
* Trump’s FCC Pick
* Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence
* What to Know About Bluesky
* The Murdoch Mob: “Succession” IRL
* Upper Class Twit of the Year

TRUMP 2.0 LOWERS THE BOOM
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By Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez
Rolling Stone

Coming soon: More media subpoenas, communications seizures,
whistleblower prosecutions, and legal threats against news outlets.

GOLIATH VS GOLIATH
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By Marc Edge
Canadian Dimension

A new form of media convergence is intensifying the rivalry between
Canada’s dominant telecoms and global digital giants.

CRYPTO CRISIS COMING?
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By Freddy Brewster
Jacobin

Recent reports from federal regulators warning about crypto’s
volatility and lack of regulation echo alerts about the subprime
mortgage industry before the 2008 financial crisis.

CARDING PORNHUB USERS
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By Douglas Soul
Tallahassee Democrat

A Florida law requires pornographic websites to have age verification
by New Year’s Day, but a new federal lawsuit is trying to get that
struck down. Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for the adult
entertainment industry, accuses the law of being unconstitutionally
vague and counter to the First Amendment.

RIGHTIST PODCASTING: FROM RUSH TO ROGAN
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By Luke Winnie
Slate

Talk radio might not be as important to American psychology as it once
was, but that’s only because conservatives have taken their talents
elsewhere: to radio’s heir, podcasting. Scroll through
Spotify’s Top Podcasts chart these days, and, at any given moment,
at least half of the most popular shows are hosted by figures friendly
to the MAGA cause.

TRUMP’S FCC PICK
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By Kyle Paulette
Columbia Journalism Review

Brendan Carr’s term as FCC chairman may have less to do with
executing structural changes at the agency than fostering an
environment of selective “public interest” enforcement that makes
media companies and the journalists who work for them second-guess
their coverage of the Trump administration. 

Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence
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By Michael Timothy Bennett and Elija Perrier
The Conversation

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved
human-level results on a test designed to measure “general
intelligence”. While scepticism remains, many AI researchers and
developers feel something just changed. For many, the prospect of
artificial general intelligence now seems more real, urgent and closer
than anticipated. Are they right?

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT BLUESKY

 • RETHINKING SOCIAL MEDIA
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  By Rory Mir, Electronic Frontier Foundation

 • INTERNET UTOPIA?
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Sinker, London Review of Books

THE MURDOCH MOB: “SUCCESSION” IRL
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By Binoy Kampmark
CounterPunch

The case that began on September 17 concerning the control of the
Murdoch family trust has been decided.  It saw a dicey attempt by
one of the most ruthless newspaper and media moguls in history to
limit the influence and control of his publishing and broadcasting
empire after his death.  The relevant parties?  The children, of
course.

UPPER CLASS TWIT OF THE YEAR
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By Ken Silverstein
Washington Babylon

Even by the lofty standards established by top competitors like Thomas
Friedman, Nicholas Kristof, and David Brooks, Bret Stephens reigns
supreme as the biggest idiot and intellectual fraud among _New York
Times_ op-ed writers.

* Free Speech
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* Donald Trump
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* Canada
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* Big Tech
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* Big Telecom
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* cryptocurrency
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* Pornhub
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* Tennessee
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* FCC
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* Brendan Carr
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* artificial intelligence
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* Evolution
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* Bluesky
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* Rupert Murdoch
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* Lachlan Murdoch
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* new york times
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