Jan
2010
CobWEBs Daily Edition: Watch what you say on Twitter it could get you arrested
Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!
For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!
In this episode, Steven and I discuss how a joke on Twitter can get you arrested as a terrorist, and this leads us the worrying growth of police powers and how we are heading to a police state that (so far) lacks jackbooted stormtroopers.
Finally, we discuss the power of social media, and Twitter specifically, and how it may have lead to the record breaking donations we see going to the Haiti relief effort. (links by Steven)
Facebooks Privacy Changes Help To Criminalize Us All – Paul O’Flaherty
Chicago Transit Authority urges commuters to report photographers – Carlos Miller
Push the big green button and have a listen in!
