A special edition about Kyle Rittenhouse, the facts, the legality, and the charges. There was a LOT of work put into this one (and due to the subject matter will probably be demonetized), so please donate if you can!
Woman whines after owner shoots her with a BB gun when she tried to steal a Trump sign from his yard, Germans required to walk their dogs two hours a day, and a recording of a key can be used to pick a lock. Plus, Adobe takes Biggest Bogon Emitter for getting legal software companies taken offline by abusing the DMCA, and Indiana takes Idiot Extraordinare for saying its cities deserve 5% of streaming revenues from Netflix and others because of their rights-of-way.
Congress banning basic machinist tools because they can make guns, California's labeling requirements violate the First Amendment, and it's impossible to create a family-friendly chat that kids won't exploit. Plus, Common Dreams takes Biggest Bogon Emitter for telling extreme whoppers about Trump, and the California teacher's union takes Idiot Extraordinaire for giving themselves money for students they don't have, as well as inhibiting charter schools.
Two important studies on "cancel culture," one from the Cato Institute and the other from POLITICO; plus, does a spike in gold prices mean hyperinflation in our future? And, Trump's administration takes another Biggest Bogon Emitter for trying to censor everything China, while the Myrtle Beach Police take Idiot Extraordinaire for arresting ANOTHER woman for wearing a bikini!
News of the Bogus: 0:35 – Business ID Theft Soars Amid COVID Closures https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/business-id-theft-soars-amid-covid-closures/ 5:12 – The Record Industry Is Going After Parody Songs Written By an Algorithm https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/m7jpp3/the-record-industry-is-going-after-parody-songs-written-by-an-algorithm 9:47 – D.C. Exempts Lawmakers, Government Employees From New Mask Order https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/d-c-exempts-lawmakers-government-employees-from-n...
News of the Bogus: 0:35 – Police Are Buying Access to Hacked Website Data https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3azvey/police-buying-hacked-data-spycloud 5:37 – SC Chief Justice puts ‘no-knock’ search warrants on hold https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article244152347.html SC Judicial Branch https://www.sccourts.org/courtOrders/displayOrder.cfm?orderNo=2020-07-10-01 9:50 – The Majority of Americans Oppose Qualified Immunity. Where Is Congress? https://reason.com/2020/07/22/the-majority-of-a...
News of the Bogus: 0:34 – Coronavirus could cause 35,000 extra UK cancer deaths, experts warn https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53300784 5:08 – SCOTUS: Presidential electors must pick their state’s popular vote winner https://nypost.com/2020/07/06/scotus-presidential-electors-must-pick-their-states-popular-vote-winner/ 10:50 – Netflix Blockade Boosted Piracy Searches, Research Finds https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-blockade-boosted-piracy-searches-research-finds-200716/ 15:05 – Biggest Bogon Emitt...
SCOTUS refuses to consider qualified immunity, Faketoshi may have inadvertently claimed to be the Mt.Gox hacker, and Estonia cancels licenses for cryptocurrency firms because of money laundering in the banking system. Plus, Maryland officials virtue-signalling about George Floyd while refusing to investigate the Duncan Lemp death, and Nancy Pelosi and other politicians do a photo-op about the Floyd death wearing the ceremonial garb of the empire that enslaved Africans.
The first drug shown to save lives from COVID-19, Zoom will have end-to-end encryption for all users, and SCOTUS denies cert to ten Second Amendment cases. Plus, the New Mexico governor takes Biggest Bogon Emitter for denigrating armed citizens protecting statues, and the news media takes another Idiot Extraordinaire for trying to stop a Trump rally citing COVID concerns, but praising BLM protests as if it isn't an issue.
Hydroxychloroquine study retracted due to fraudulent data, IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft refusing to let governments use facial recognition until privacy safeguards are in place, and Microsoft taking down a Windows tweak tool using the DMCA. Plus, Zoom is Biggest Bogon Emitter AGAIN after saying their otherwise-brilliant end-to-end encryption will only be available to paid users, ann Lowell, MI is Idiot Extraordinaire for firing a police chief who likes the Second Amendment.
The USDA stops small farmers covering the shortage of meat, white liberals dumb down their speech when talking to blacks but conservatives don't, and journalists and the Twitter mob attack Wendy's over fake news. Plus, California get another Biggest Bogon Emitter for kowtowing to the fearmongering news media and sacrificing hospitals, and the Minneapolis PD takes Idiot Extraordinaire for not having already fired Chauvin, known to be violent on several occasions.
Restrictions of "non-essential" procedures are costing hospitals billions, a new 3D printed gun with no restricted parts, and the NC Supreme Court says giving the finger to cops isn't evidence of a crime. Plus, CNN takes another Biggest Bogon Emitter for lying about Elon Musk, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes Idiot Extraordinaire for avoiding business taxes for YEARS. Also, Silver Cluon winner Wisconsin Supreme Court schools the state government over the lockdown!
The problems with contact tracing that even results in an Idiot Extraordinaire, Judge Napolitano praises salon owner who was jailed for keeping her business open, the blockchain is being used as a tool in the fight against food supply fraud, and the news media takes another Biggest Bogon Emitter for giving us absolutely no useful information whatsoever about the recent Flynn unmasking revelations.
People who recover from COVID-19 are unlikely to be reinfected, Trader Joe's found a clever way to supply toilet paper, and there ARE limits to prosecutorial immunity. Plus, Justin Trudeau takes Biggest Bogon Emitter for gun control bogosity, and Santa Clara County, CA takes Idiot Extraordinaire for banning events where people stay in their cars.
Joe Rogan keeps his guests safe with COVID testing, and idiots are COMPLAINING! AMC throws a tantrum when Universal releases directly to streaming, and the US government put Amazon on its list of "notorious markets." Plus, Harvard professor Elizabeth Bartholet wants to ban home schooling for being "authoritarian," and California Governor Gavin Newsom pitches a scientifically-ignorant fit because people are visiting public beaches.
News of the Bogus: 0:37 – Yes, Section 215 Expired. Now What? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/yes-section-215-expired-now-what This abuse of the Patriot Act must end https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/09/abuse-patriot-act-must-end 4:12 – Top Israeli prof claims simple stats show virus plays itself out after 70 days https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-israeli-prof-claims-simple-stats-show-virus-plays-itself-out-after-70-days/ 8:10 – Charter’s Request to Dismiss Piracy Liabilit...
Signal and the EFF call for action on the EARN IT Act, a judge says YouTube can engage in retaliatory striking, and Bloomberg actively killed an anti-China investigation. Plus, the WHO takes a FOURTH Biggest Bogon Emitter for their mishandling of the COVID-19 epidemic, and the Bernie Bros take Idiot Extraordinaire after their hero sells out, as every intelligent person knew he would.
Hackers are using COVID-19 to scare you, the UK government still refuses to release Assange (and the reason why is unbelievable!), and a smart toilet can identify you by the shape of your, er, "exit." Facebook gets Biggest Bogon Emitter for more moderation failures, and Venezuela takes Idiot Extraordinaire when they attack a cruise ship and LOSE! Plus, completely unexpectedly, Microsoft takes the Silver Cluon Award! Find out why.
Zoom features heavily this week, with the opening story about them and other vendors insisting on NDAs for bug bounties, they get Biggest Bogon Emitter for their false claims about end-to-end encryption, and Richard Blumenthal takes Idiot Extraordinaire for insisting that they implement the very end-to-end encryption he wants to make illegal. Plus, it's not a crime to violate a website's ToS, and the Internet Archive is under attack from major copyright cartels.
The less-well-reported facts about the current coronavirus strain (NCoV-2019, aka COVID-19, aaka SARS-CoV-2), especially how government interventions have made the outbreak much worse than it would be, and the current state of research into cures and preventatives. Also, Facebook gets Biggest Bogon Emitter for how badly their spam filters have reacted, and anti-gunners take Idiot Extraordinaire for all of a sudden wanting to get guns and running into their own roadblocks.
Another open source group "goes woke" as OSI bans founder Eric S. Raymond, Senators attack both encryption AND Section 230 with the EARN IT act, and a court orders Chelsea Manning be released from jail following another suicide attempt. Plus, Biggest Bogon Emitter Jehovah's Witnesses abuse copyright to try and get the personal information of critics and apostates, and the CIA gets Idiot Extraordinaire because of incredibly lax cybersecurity on critical systems.
Free speech and free press are under threat from Trump as he backs Oracle trying to copyright APIs, and with the UK's help as they go after Julian Assange. Idiot Extraordinaire Tulsi Gabbard also tries to abuse free speech by wanting FORCED speech of her commercials. Also, PayPal takes Biggest Bogon Emitter for ignoring security issues and getting around paying bug bounties. But on a better note, Microsoft takes impressive measures to secure elections and electronic voting.
Did the Trump Administration offer Julian Assange a pardon if he would "play ball"? Should a teen be put on the sex offender list for LIFE for receiving non-nude pictures of his girlfriend? And can you be in violation of copyright if you use the word "did"? Also, learn about why the Iowa Democratic caucus was such an abject failure, and check out the wonderful applications the West Midlands police don't want your child using.
Another child dead because of anti-vaccers, copyright trolls skyrocketing in Sweden, and verification that Huawei has been putting backdoors in their systems. Plus, the US State Department is turning the national archives into MiniTru, and Dera Davis of the Environmental Health Trust is suing the FCC for not looking at bogus studies about the long-debunked link between cell phones and brain cancer.
An update on the pentesters arrested for doing their job, and two more coronavirus stories, one on the bogus "HIV insertion" conspiracy theory, the other an astounding example of ignorant overreaction. Plus, the UN takes Biggest Bogon Emitter for anomaly-hunting to try and prove the Saudis hacked Jeff Bezos's phone, and YouTube gets Idiot Extraordinaire for giving a copyright strike to a livestream that hadn't even started yet!
Two stories on Google data collection, one where it resulted in a man being falsely arrested for murder, the second on Google's plan to charge governments for this data and the privacy benefits it will give. And speaking of privacy, the UK will not be implementing Article 13! Plus, a pair of stories about the coronavirus outbreak, one where Wilbur Ross commits a Broken Window Fallacy and another where government "damage control" causes more damage than the virus itself.
After a brief update on the William Barr/Apple story, we have a special episode focusing on the Second Amendment rally in Richmond, VA on the 20th, with particular attention paid to Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, and the biased, near-libelous claims of the news media.
A new attempt to standardize warrant canaries may help reveal secret govenrment activity, Red Hat and IBM oppose copyright on user interfaces, and the NSA and GitHub are Rickrolled over a CryptoAPI bug. Plus, Bill Barr takes another Biggest Bogon Emitter by lying about Apple's responsiveness to warrants, and Idiot Extraordinaire Justin Boots opposes Shane Bieber over his "Not Justin" slogan.
The first podcast of the new year as California tries TWICE to maintain their ultimate idiot status both putting a head tax on employment and trying to close down a charter school on diversity grounds, and we also look at some of the bogus DMCA notices filed against TorrentFreak last year. Plus, Australia's fires are NOT caused by Global Warming, and Lindsey Graham exposes his anti-math authoritarianism.
Wrapping it all up for 2019! What were the biggest stories and most notorious idiots we covered, and who is 2019's Idiot of the Year?
