 Bang. What does it mean? What does it mean? To be happy in a world where the whole, every country everywhere is trying to go after your internet. That's basically what the news is this week. We've got European Wikipedia sites go dark to protest copyright reform. We've got that the EU internet copyright bill was rejected. Hooray, I think. I don't know a ton about it to be completely honest. We got kids trapped in caves in Thailand and Elon Musk trying to save them. Apparently that makes sense. It's crazy. Also Uganda has a new social media tax, which is like actually incredibly expensive compared to how much people make in general over there. This is not the way. Roll the intro. Where is it? Good. It's good. Oh no. Couch, couch, couch. Someone sent me a message on the forum and they thought that Lance is wearing a tunnel bear shirt here. And it actually really looks like it. I see it. It's not, but I see it. No, I asked Ed and he showed me it's like a box. That's not white. Catch book. The white bar underneath his like says unboxing. Yeah. Yay. PIA. If you need to get around certain social taxes in Uganda and yay LTX. You don't need a VPN there because you'll be doing interactive stuff in like real life and things because it's fun and good. Public internet access. Yeah. So let's start at the top. Wikipedia did a little bit of a protest in the EU to protest copyright reform and how they did that was they basically turned off two different sites within Wikipedia. So when you go to Wikipedia, you pick your language and each one of those is essentially kind of its own thing. So I believe they turned off the France and Spain, something like that. Oh no, Italy and Spanish and Italian, the Spanish and Italian additions while in Europe were were off essentially. So if you went to the site, you just saw this giant block of text that was like, by the way, that was posted by mains on the forum. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. My main user. Yeah. You just saw a bunch of text that was like, hey, you're not seeing information. You're seeing a description of what they're trying to do in the ways that it will affect your internet usage. Look at this nightmare we got going on right now. There we go. That was slow. I don't think that was end gadgets fault. I think that's us. But yeah, yeah. So that that sucks for anyone who had to research anything at that point in time. Oh, man. I guess you could probably just go to a different version of Wikipedia and like translate the page or whatever. But yeah. So this happened ahead of the European Parliament's final vote on the controversial EU copyright directive, which is the first time the region is updating its copyright laws since 2001. They're ostensibly trying to modernize them, but it kind of looks like it's it's a war between content creators like like movie studios and the record business business versus the giant decentralized Internet of people who just want to remix and create an upload like memes that that's been at the center of this for a little while. That's how a lot of people have actually heard about this is the meme problem. But it has to do with a lot of other things as well. And the link tax. Yeah. There are two articles within the the big thing, which we have linked in the WAN doc here. So if you are watching this later on, you can check the WAN doc in the link below the YouTube video or SoundCloud. Yes, there is an audio only version of this actually. And you'll be able to find it there. The first article is Article 11, which will require websites to pay a fee to link to news publications or use snippets from their articles. So if you're on Facebook and you see an embedded snippet or an embedded link to another article where you've got a little thumbnail image, a part of the title and maybe a description of the content, Facebook wouldn't be able to show that unless they paid some kind of license fee to the owner of that content. I think. Yeah, it's pretty like it's ridiculous as if as if as if Facebook is just going to spend all day, every day licensing all the different pieces of content that get uploaded to Internet that day. It doesn't make any sense. Check this one quick thing. I just want to show how wonderful this is. We're able to stream, but I can't even like load webpages. Priorities, baby. Yeah, we got this though. Yeah, this is stream is working, but I can't see the chat. So, you know, I'm actually not 100 percent convinced that it's working, but it might be. I'm going to go. Hashtag prerecorded. Yeah, I'm going to go with yes. Well, this unintentionally, apparently there's an exception in there. People were concerned about link tax where if you've got some tax and part of that tax is highlighted because it's a hyperlink. Like check out our last review on this here that you wouldn't be able to have that here hyperlink without paying the tax. But I think there's an exemption for that. OK, yeah, because that would just break the. That's what the Internet's based on. That's what Google is based on. And there is another exemption that allows search engines to to use your input snips. I was just going to say. You still want to be found. Yeah. You want to be found because that's good for your bottom line. Yeah. But you don't want to be linked to and you don't want to to lift up other platforms that are aggregators basically because they're just profiting off your content without paying you enough. Or like be used as an image sharing host when that's not where you're supposed to be, etc, etc. And a big part of it is like the amount of money that a lot of music artists are not making from YouTube that they are making from Spotify. So OK, we're good. Opponents want these these musicians just to renegotiate with YouTube and not kind of stain the whole Internet with a shotgun blast. Yeah. OK, so my my Web page finally loaded. So Twitch chat people, there's the link. There you go. Sorry about the delay. Yeah. So there's another article. That's article 11. There's also article 13, which requires websites to filter user submissions and check them against copyrighted work. That is so brutal and would just like crush the forum and everyone's. Yes, yes, yes. Any online platform that allowed users to post text, images, sounds or code would need to assess and filter that content, which has a bunch of brutal implications, which are nicely summarized by this like party, this pirate party. Every single UGC site user generated content site would just be. This is exactly why. This is exactly why Wikipedia was protesting. Ah, because they are. Yeah, OK. Exactly. They're even pretty good about like exactly making sure that everything's all OK, but like. Leasing everything would be. So here's a list. Can I send this to you? So can you click on this one? Which one source for this down there? So I don't know. You might call this bias because this is definitely one side of the argument here. This is Julia Reda, who represents the pirate party, the pirate pack. You can still find good information from. Knowing is always better. Go down. You can find good information. Scroll down. Consequences list. Freedom of expression limited. Obviously. Yeah. Number one. Independent creators harmed. Yeah. And then there's all this like stifling of innovation and stuff, because if OK, let's say you want to have a platform that gets user generated content. If you need to police that, then that either takes a ton of staff or it takes an algorithm. Both those things cost resources. So something like this just solidifies incumbents and then bogs bogs small businesses down in regulation that they just can't handle. Yeah. It's really interesting when putting a law into place is getting people to legitimately go to a pirate party website and be like, yeah, yeah, that makes sense. But they don't necessarily agree with piracy. That's an interesting check. This point surveillance risk due to high development costs for monitoring technology. This will likely end up like the technology would be outsourced to some major players who make that kind of thing so that there would be a few large players who are the gatekeepers to everything that's being uploaded. So they have this data of what a large segment of the population is uploading. Yeah, that seems to go OK. It doesn't go against GDPR or GDPR. I always forget which way that goes, but it doesn't go against it. I think it's RP. I also have the same thing. Yeah. I always remember the GDP. But after that, I'm like, yeah. It doesn't go against it. But I think it goes against the point almost. Because I think the point is to try to reduce the amount that you're monitored online. If you don't want to be on a certain website anymore, you can ask them to remove all your stuff. Those sites aren't allowed to keep your stuff for way too long, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And now it's just like filter everything, monitor everything, make sure everything is OK, which again, it doesn't technically go against it. This would be allowed as long as it was disclosed and everything was OK and you could delete it if you wanted, blah, blah, blah. But yeah, it's just weird. So it didn't go through for now. Yeah. The Wikipedia protesting was a few days ago. I think it was on Thursday that they had their first vote, but it's not over. They're going to they're basically going back to the drawing board, going to rework the proposal. And then all of the members of European Parliament get to vote again on September 10 to 13. This is a nice long weekend. Yeah. They get to be in a cabin together. Also, thank you Master Disaster for posting that on the forum. Yeah, that guy's legit. Y'all. A lot of people in the chat are saying that we look super saturated. We are super saturated. We're not, though. What? I've been told by the people who set it up. It's not actually over saturated. It's what the colored light on the back wall looks like. Oh, I mean, that is a pretty that actually does look pretty realistic to this is a blue light shining on this blue wall. That's a reddish pinkish light shining on that red wall. And then there's pink LEDs behind that red wall. So the walls just look crazy because they're they're blue and red and then has blue and red being shined on the look is just full of vitality is rosy cheeks are actually just full of rose or rose blood bloody road outside. Yeah. But you drink your milk. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I'm getting various nodding and thumbs up from it. I think it looks good. I would say it's overexposed, but we think it's because the independent colors of lights on the color. It looks fine on ours. OK, I can't tell because we have a gaming monitor that is not color calibrated at all. So I have no idea what it looks like. On all of ours it looks good. OK, cool. We're going with it. Yeah, it's fine. Best Buy is going to have this on their monitors on their showroom floor on all their TVs. Look at this. It popped, baby. Oh, my God. That sells TVs. Speaking of. Look at this. The best segue ever. Elon Musk, apparently, for whatever reason, saves the world and your children from a cave that got flooded. So if you guys haven't heard of it, there's like I believe it's a soccer team and their coach was just kind of exploring around for what I don't know how this ended up happening. But this is in Thailand. Yeah, it's a soccer team of 12 Thai boys. Yeah. And their coach. Yeah. I don't know why they're doing this, but they're exploring a cave. That's cool. Outside extracurricular activities kind of situation. They hung out too long. They hung out too long in the cave. It flooded and they kept on getting pushed back further into the cave because as it flooded more and more and more, they tried to keep getting higher ground and getting to more air and all that kind of stuff. So they got stuck. God, that's way. Oh, yeah. Aren't they like two point five kilometers in there now? Really? I didn't know that. I don't know. Yes. Well, someone else I was talking to told me Jake said they were like six miles in there. But the thing I read said two and a half K, which is a big discrepancy. But regardless, that's scary as man. Like, yeah, just having to retreat deeper into this thing. So it sounds like at the very least, the flooded sections is two point five K because it says it it takes even the most experienced divers up to five hours. That's right. To swim through the two point five kilometers of jagged narrow channels from where the what? I guess you're not that many atmospheres down because you're like just barely under the water. OK, it's gnarly apparently. So they were reported missing on the 23rd of June. They were discovered nine days later by a pair days later by a pair of British divers. Yeah, rescue who could do nothing. Yeah, they just showed up and they're like, no, you can't come with us because it's too crazy of a dive. Like they have explored a possibility of getting the boys to swim out. But none of the boys can even swim. They don't know how to swim, let alone dive. And even if they were to dive, they're trying to get them a special like full face diving mass because normal respirators would probably just get ripped off because it's like super tight. So to explain the super tightness to these guys have to be well, they're master divers for sure. But they they like would at a base level have to have the tech certificate because there's certain points where you can't have your air tank strapped to your back. So like I couldn't find if they had to like run them by their side or if they had to just like go off air for a second, throw the tank through, swim through and then hook back up. I don't know what the situation is, but this is not at all a simple dive. It's advanced enough that tragically, a either an ex Navy SEAL or current Navy SEAL from Thailand actually did die. No diving, I think on his way back. I didn't know that. Yeah. So and there's a ticking clock. It's not like they can just hang out and keep bringing them food. There's a ticking clock because they're in the middle of the rainy season, which goes for like another three or four months until the end of October, I think. And there's rain forecasted for the weekend. Up until now, there hasn't been much rain. So the water is going to keep coming and they're running out of places to go. In fact, they might have they might be out of places to go. Yeah. Yeah. And wait, wait, there's more. They're running out of oxygen. The oxygen in the chamber that they're in is down to dangerous levels, like 15 percent or something like that. So they had 10 rescuers with the boys who delivered food and stuff and their doctors and nurses and the boys. And they got five of those rescuers just to leave because they're just sucking up too much too much oxygen. And they're like bringing oxygen tanks in to the chamber just so they can breathe. That's pretty wild. By the way, guys, I can't share screen right now because I have I have no Internet. I'm going to try to go on. What I can't believe is happening. Look. Oh, good God. OK, we're still live. Apparently, I can see it on my phone. I connected to LTE on my phone. I'm going to try to show you. You look so natural. That's not saturated at all. Yeah, whatever. So so if they can't walk out, so they can't swim out. So then they think maybe they could walk out. So they've been pumping water out of there. Yeah. But like freaking tons of it, right? Like millions of gallons. Yeah. And they've also been trying to dig down to them. They've dug over a hundred tons of water. They've dug over a hundred tons of water. They've dug over a hundred tons of water. They've dug over a hundred tons of water. They've dug over a hundred tons of water. They've dug over a hundred tons of water. Yeah. And this is where Elon Musk comes in for two box. You two of those things. One, he thinks he can pump water out faster using some like Tesla battery operated thing. Yeah. And two, he's sending a boring company engineers who he thinks they can dig better or at least help out in some way. So insane that he just got involved. He's like on Twitter. He's like, this is nuts. Yeah. So someone messaged him like, Oh, can you help with this? Elon, help us. And he's like, I'll help in any way I can. And everyone just thinks that's like, Oh, well, there's, there's no way he can help. He's saying he'll help in any way he can. Maybe he'll donate a bit and move on and everything. No, he's like, I have access to the most talented digging engineers there are. I'm just going to, you know, ship a team over. We'll, we'll try to pump water out faster. And then this was my favorite one. Uh, he also discussed the possibility of inserting a nylon tube into the cave to fill it with air, like a bouncy cat. That's a long tube. So that is a very long tube. It's 2.5 kilometers, presumably. And then they could just hang out boys. Yeah. Hang out. What? That just still doesn't solve the water problem. If they're at the end of the, if they're at the, like the deepest chamber they can get to. Yeah. Maybe we can help out. Can we get some hardware in there? Have a land. They can have a land. And make a video. Yeah. They have a land. Yeah. You can dive in there. Heck yeah. Hosted by Luke. I would die. If that Navy SEAL died, I'm screwed. Oh my God. I'm also a fairly large person. So these confined spaces sounds like you imagine these kids were in there for nine days, like before they even had contact. Having no idea if they were going to get it out. That's insane. They're in the rainwater and not eating. They're like all super weak when they get found. Holy cow. So prayers and thoughts and all that to those kids. At least they didn't eat each other. I'm pretty- I know that sounds insane, but that's like happened. Yeah. Wasn't there like a rugby team that got lost in the mountains or something? Like forever ago? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a movie, I think it's called Alive. Where there's like a plane crash. Something like that. Yeah. They reference it in The Simpsons. I saw it when I was a kid. That's all I know. But that's like, that's like a movie. I didn't know. But that's like, that was a thing. Anyways, yeah, more rain is expected. There's a bunch of different rescue teams. People from all over are trying to help and this has been quite documented. So if you want to learn more about it, you can check it out. But yeah, apparently Elon is getting involved because that's the world right now. That's how that works. Something crazy happened. So Elon shows up. I think, I think they're going to make it. I'm pretty, pretty hopeful. Pretty optimistic. I hope so too. I'm really sad that that Navy SEAL died. You can actually see footage from inside the cave with the original divers who found them, took a video when they're speaking to them. And I think they even like were like FaceTiming their families and stuff. Check it out. Maybe they're above the ground. There are places where water runs uphill right into the next topic. Uganda. All right. Yeah. Uganda social media is now a taxable activity. Let me take you on a internet spiral journey that I went on this afternoon when I was reading about this. Okay. So first I went to like, well, this was posted by Duck Dodgers on the forum, which is where I started on the forum. Thanks, Duck Dodgers. I get to learn about this. Social media is now taxable. What? So it turns out that what the government has done there has told the ISPs that they must block users from going to certain sites, namely Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Tinder, and dozens of other crucially Tinder. Yeah. And a ton of others. They're blocked unless they pay this. It's not really a subscription fee. It's a per day fee of about five cents US, which is 200 shillings. I didn't know there are multiple African nations whose currency is called a shilling. That's Pirates of the Caribbean stuff. That's kind of cool. Maybe they have doubloons somewhere. Doubloons, that would be sweet. So it's five US cents a day. I don't mean to belittle being insensitive. I never get to hear the word shilling. Anyway, I've already, I'm digging the hole. I'm going to reach those Thai kids with how deep I'm digging. This is getting worse. So it sounds like an insignificant amount of money to us, but keep in mind that there are how many is it? Millions of Ugandans who survive on less than a dollar per day. So for this to be five cents or like the per capita income is $600. So a year, this would be $1,900 if you paid the five cents for every year. There's also an incentive to sign up for a month in advance rather than paying per day. Okay. So that sucks and you think, okay, that's just the government trying to make some money. Someone in the chat, which I have to read off my phone because what the heck is going on? It says that Portugal is doing a similar thing right now. I hope not. But back on track, there's, it seems like it's like a, like a money grabbing, like the government's just going to, it's just a new tax and maybe they'll use it for a better internet infrastructure or whatever. But then I thought, wait a second. Countries like this usually have a high amount of disparity, right? So when you see like the average per capita income, it's probably the case that that average actually doesn't represent that many people. There's probably a lot of people in the high end that boost the average and a lot of people on the low end. So I thought those poorest people who live on less than a dollar a day, they're actually probably not affected by this. They're probably not the internet users or they certainly won't be after, they are affected by this because they won't be internet users after this. So then I thought, is this like a system of control? Is this like a way for people to not be able to go on Twitter, not communicate, not organize themselves, not have protests because they can't go on WhatsApp. They can't communicate with each other. Right. So then I thought, Ooh, this is kind of tin hatty. Let's Google Uganda dictator, tyrant, censorship, buzzwords. And so I went, of course I went to like the Wikipedia and there is a huge laundry list of things they've done in the past, including arresting opposition members, hiring gangs of young unemployed men to harass and oppress opposition supporters and politicians. And critically, in February of 2016, the government ordered the mobile service providers to block social media platforms. The government claims that platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp spread rumors and create unnecessary chaos. The opposition has argued that the ruling was put in place to prevent the public from reporting irregularities in the election process. And to note the opposition thing, Uganda's president is serving his seventh term right now. Yeah. So apparently like the elections that they have are kind of fishy. Yeah. So, okay. Then I learned. Like anytime you hire a gang of people to harass your opposition. Well, ostensibly they were hired to keep the peace. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. Ostensibly. So then I found out that actually Uganda put this in place after neighboring Tanzania put in similar things, which is the next topic here. Yes. They did it a little bit differently. What did they do? Oh yeah. Officially dubbed the Electronic and Postal Communications Regulations 2018. Not ACT or anything, just 2018. There was even a parenthetical thing that I took out of there. That's a huge name. But this basically requires online content creators, which includes traditional media websites, online TV, radio channels, but also individual bloggers and bloggers and like regular people, podcasters, to pay roughly 2 million Tanzanian shillings, which is 930 US dollars in registration and licensing fees. So if you want to create content, you have to like get essentially like a business license. Like, yeah, that's a ton of money, man. I wouldn't do that. Even for like a more wealthy nation where like your average person has more wealth per capita, that's still a lot of money. If you were like an American with a thousand subscribers, which is hard to get, you might be like, screw this. Oh yeah. Yeah. So creators must not only pay these things, creators must store their contributors' details. So let's say you started like a little news network. Whoever contributes to your site, you have to store that author's details for 12 months and have the means to identify their sources and disclose financial sponsors, which is like super Orwellian, like transparency suite. But it's also kind of like, who are the detractives? Who are supporting them? Cyber cafes must install surveillance. Financial sponsors. I don't really mind that too much. But the... Well, what's involved in storing their contributors' details? What's involved in storing their contributors' details? No, that part I don't mind. Is that like their address and stuff? That part I absolutely mind. What is that? But the like disclosing financial sponsors. I guess it would come down to what details they want about the financial sponsors and how they have to disclose it, I guess. But being like, hey, we're paid by whoever to do whatever, I don't really see a problem with that. But the rest of it, yeah. Computers' details for 12 months, of course, that's not great. Cyber cafes must install surveillance cameras. Yeah. And then there's all this vague language like failure to comply with the regulations, which also forbid online content that is indecent or annoying or that leads to public disorder, which is just... What is that? Can be anything if you don't like me. Yeah. Failure to comply with that is going to result in a 5 million shilling or $2,200 fine. A jail term of not less than a year or both. So you're screwed, basically. So there's already content creators, YouTubers and stuff in Tanzania who have given up. Yeah. So Tanzania's GDP per capita, like I was saying earlier, $879 US dollars. So you wouldn't be able to afford, like the average person there would not be able to afford the license alone, let alone if you ever screwed up, that's over two years worth of income with no other expenses at all. One of their famous YouTubers called the idea that this is like a tax. The idea of using this as just like another form of taxation. A flimsy excuse. Is he just screwed then? Promoted by the government to restrict free speech. And wait, it gets even interesting earlier. A one blogger, not necessarily a Tanzanian blogger. No, I think it actually was. Yeah. I think they are a one blogger, but in the story it actually is this particular woman. Well, I'm worried about that person. So it gets even crazier because they have their own like WikiLeaks there. The Swahili WikiLeaks site called Jami forums. How do you say a word that ends in two I's? Jami-ee. I don't know. But they have this history of, of course, people upload to their whistleblowing site and you don't disclose who uploaded it. It's just like people know or whatever. Like they're protected, right? Well, now this site has to disclose the details of the content creators who contribute. Definitely one of the reasons why they did that. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. So now it's either, well, tell us who posted it or get shut down. That's scary, man. Pretty brutal. I think I have internet again, which is great. And another thing where you can tell that it's calling it a tax is just ridiculous is that the blogosphere there is pretty small. Oh yeah. So they wouldn't be getting a significant amount of money from it. No, it's just a, just a means of control. Scary stuff. Totally. It's kind of similar to the European copyright directive, but just completely different motivations. But the end result is similar in a way. I'm not going to delve on this for too long because it's not technology and stuff, but have you looked into the things that were in addition in the. So Canada recently passed a law. Is it 100% in? I don't think it's 100% in for a little while, but essentially marijuana is like legal and stuff and you can grow your own and blah, blah, blah, blah. Most of the population up here seems to be fairly happy about that, but also in that bill there was a bunch of other things. Like you're now allowed to be pulled over without any form of cause or suspicion and like all this other. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. You should look into it. It's pretty nuts. People are pretty upset about that. And it just got passed through because everyone was just like, oh yes, a bill to make the weeds now legal. Yes, I will sign. And there's a bunch of other terrible things. You must clean James's room. You ever do that as a kid? Like you write a note and you get someone to sign on the back. It's like, you must be my slave. You just sold me our soul. Not it. Anyways, we should take a little intermission from the everyone's trying to be evil when show to our sponsors, to talk about sponsors, fresh books. So you know, if you're trying to run a business in a country where you can do that, use fresh books. It is a super simple to use invoicing tool that makes it so you can send invoices in like less than 30 seconds. You can generate them super quick. 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So do you guys know about LTX? Do I have that pin? This is the tech link to pay. That's a sick pin. This pin is very, very good. So we're also going to be selling. I'm wearing a suit to LTX and wearing this on my lapel like a gentleman. Are you going to? There you go. Are you going to wear a suit? I'm wearing something. I want to wear one of those. I'm wearing nothing. What are you doing? Oh, getting you to talk to this. Anyways. Yeah, pretty much. So LTX guys. Yeah, yeah, exactly. We rehearsed this. So LTX. Edzel, what are you doing? That's great. Awesome. I'll sit like this and get back pain. Hello. So LTX live event. I'm sure you guys have heard about this before. July 14th, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. You guys should come. It's going to be fun. We're going to have a 20 PC LAN. Corsair is going to be there. Asus is going to be there. We're going to be doing reviving our triple headed VR thing. We're doing that. Which will be. We're at the same booth. Hell yeah. It's WAN show all day, baby. Nice. The NAR show. Yeah, exactly. We're going to be doing stuff there. We're going to be having a contest for whoever can get the highest score in Minesweeper will win like a brand new Titan XP. That's sweet. I used to actually play that quite often. I can't enter. So good luck. Yeah, we're going to have like a bunch of systems on display. It's going to be really cool. And then we're actually going to have merch on site to buy, including the shirts for those of you that didn't get it with your ticket. And including a secret merch that very few people know about. Oh, yes. Oh, it's going to be secrets. It's going to be sick. We're only making a hundred. It's going to be the sickest. I want one. I don't know what it is. Oh, you want one. It's not that secret. It involves. Hey, is it? That's a spoiler. All right, fine. We're also going to have two unboxings at the event, which are also secrets. Linus doesn't even know what they are. So that should be interesting. So he'll drop them regardless. Yeah. Everyone's going to be there. If you guys are coming LTX and you see any of us come say hi, come chitchat. This whole point of the event is that we're there to hang out and chill with. So it's going to be really cool. Yeah. Lots of fun display and there's other guests. Yeah. Other other guests. So other YouTubers that are probably going to be there is going to be Jay's two cents. Nice. Steve from Gamers Nexus. Yeah. And Barnacles. Nice. So yeah. And I'm sure I'm missing some people. Guys from Memory Express are going to be there. You should get Jimmy from Spectrum glasses to come. I'm probably I'm probably missing people. Yes. Yeah. Why not? You can ask. You can ask. You can ask. If you want to come go to LTX Expo dot com pick up your tickets and we'll see you there. People are asking if we're live streaming LTX. So oh sorry I'm really bad at this. I'm going to be live stream parts of it. So probably on Twitch. So right here we'll be streaming not the entire event but we will do a few walkabouts and capture a few things. Details on that coming soon. I'm sure that'll be okay. But no replacement for being there smelling us. Wow. Just getting your nose right in there. Pheromones you can't actually detect but that influence your behavior. Yeah. You'll be forever changed by what you inhale at this event. Well you choose. What do you want to talk about for the next 20 minutes? I don't know. I think is there anything happy? Is there anything that's like government does something that isn't crushing their citizens? Well this is kind of neutral I think and I think we have to talk about because it's pretty big. So you may know that earlier this week Facebook's hate speech algorithms. Yeah. Erroneously or maybe not erroneously. They took down a post that contained a excerpt from the American Declaration of Independence. So leading up to the 4th of July. I forget who it was. There's a Facebook page in Texas that was posting snippets from the declaration. So they broke it up into 12 different parts and every day they're uploading a part. I think it was like 12 days of independence. Basically and then on day 9 or something like that they got a message saying that your content has been taken down. So the message didn't specifically say which content. So it could have been any excerpt but they believe that it's this excerpt that contains their individual posts wouldn't they know because one of them just wouldn't be there. It sounds like the easiest thing to figure out ever. True. You are a critical thinker. They did eventually like apologize and put it back. But the post that got flagged was this little part that refers to Native Americans as merciless Indian savages. So you can check out the full quote by Googling it or like looking on our doc. My question to you Luke is should Facebook put it back? Wow. Okay. That's okay. One all right technically I am American. Some people know this. I have passports for both countries. I was born in Canada. I've spent every single residential day in Canada. I've never had a residence in America but I technically have both citizens. And technically I'm like sort of more American than I am Canadian because I'm technically a second class Canadian citizen. Meaning the government can deport me at any time for any reason without a trial. Which is great. I do have to watch it because I can be kicked out at any time. But I have a full American citizenship not like a second class one or anything so I'm technically like more stable there even though I've never lived there. It's weird. But I didn't know that was in there. That's a pretty aggro. It's really interesting because I think it's not like the... We've got another story that we'll talk about in a second where an algorithm kind of flagged something and it was obviously just not programmed well. Whereas this you could argue maybe should have flagged this. But then because of the status of the document it's like well this racism is allowed because it's an important document. Well certain historical things right. It's like I... This is weird. We're going down a weird path for the land show. This is not technology. But I don't think history should be changed personally. Like I don't think a book should be edited that was published in the past because I don't think it's a... Because I think knowing mistakes that happened in the past is a valuable thing. I think knowledge is more important than other things generally. So then like I don't know. Just because the content isn't abridged does that mean that it should be allowed to be broadcast? Just because it isn't abridged? Like they don't post it and have part blurred out. They don't change the book. Well the Declaration of Independence is still like... That's still an important document right? It's still an important government document. So I don't really think it should... No I think it should be left alone. So they should be a lot... But is that the same as like leaving it alone is that the same as broadcasting it? I don't know man. Alright so here's a... I... So personally I think they should be allowed. I think it should depend on the context personally. If I... given the way... so Facebook is its own private entity. It's not a government thing. So they can do whatever they want. They could be like you know what? No one's ever allowed posting that on this website. And then people that believe in that strongly would just not use the website. It's a private thing. But with their stance on things in general I think it would depend on... so this is again I just have to give an opinion based on what I think they would do. Because I think they're allowed to do whatever they want. Given their stance on things it would depend on the context. If this person was like screw these people because it says this in the Declaration of Independence then that I think Facebook would then step in and want it taken down. If they're just posting like this is the 12 days until Independence Day we're going to slowly walk people through the Declaration of Independence because it's fairly long and no one's going to read this whole post in one little digestion thing. But they might like it and share it every day as we go through. And then they just happen to get to that part. I personally think Facebook would be fine with that because I don't think the intent is there. I don't think there was malice built into it. I'm not even sure if there was malice in the year or maybe. So here's an easier more cut and dry one. I think the same week Google AdSense... Google AdSense decided that a webpage about a decades old bill about sexual abuse was adult content. So it decided that this webpage therefore should not be able to show ads anymore. So the page which has been up for six years contains strictly legislative information. It's just all legal stuff about a bill called the Child Sexual Abuse and Pornography Act of 1986. So that's a lot of hot words. And the algorithm was like, this is bad. Blocked. So then the person who runs this website, which is govtrack.us, which is like a legislative research and tracking website, that person reached out to Google and tried to make an appeal to get the site back up and right away got a response saying no. Denied. Denied. The request to unflag the page was denied. And therefore they still can't run ads. The site gets like 37 grand a year from running ads. It's an important site. This particular page, because the bill is so old, doesn't get visited that much. So it's kind of a drop in the bucket for them. But if it wasn't... So it's just funny because you can tell because the site's been up for so long that they just made a tweak to the algorithm, which made this get flagged by... Which I think is not really a manual thing right now. It's all machine learning. But still, the machine learning algorithm was like, you know what? I hate it. Child porn. Jesus. Yeah. I'm not surprised it got picked up by something, to be completely honest. It was just funny how you can design and automate a system, make these little tweaks, and it just propagates and affects so many people. And affects their bottom line. It affects their livelihood. But it's necessary because you just can't have humans going through all these things. It's just too much content. Yeah. You know, we should have less content on the internet. Wait a second. These Tanzanians are onto something. We're making content right now, man. Don't kill our own jobs. Speaking of nothing, because there's no segue for this. There are finally some news that you guys are probably very directly interested in. AMD B450 boards are coming out. Speaking of a B450 board. Yeah. Anyways, AMD has still not formally announced the B450 chipset, but pre-orders and listings for B450 boards from three major motherboard manufacturers have already appeared in Austria and Germany. Some stores list some of these motherboards as in stock, but also note that the product will be ordered from their warehouse or distributor after an order is placed, which is essentially like they're saying that they have that store is confirming that they have availability. It's not in that store's own warehouse, but their distributor has some and they can get it from them. But it still implies that you're going to be able to get it in a few days. Soon. So that makes it seem like this announcement is going to be really, really soon. Yeah, the ASUS Prime B450M-A seems to be available immediately and many of the boards don't appear on the manufacturer's websites yet, which is weird. It could be a retail leak, which happens sometimes, but it seems fairly unlikely. My question is why do these kinds of things always seem to happen in Germany? In Austria. Yeah, that happened not that long ago too. Always Germany. It's always like these German sites are, I'm always translating web pages. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, wasn't it like Walmart Canada that leaked all of Bethesda's E3 stuff? I don't remember what it like, what was it? I can't remember the name. Post-apocalyptic. No. That makes sense. But no. Rage? Rage. Rage 2. Is it Rage? The Rage Carry 2? Do you remember that? Rage Carry 2? Yeah, it was a movie. It was the sequel to Carry. It came out in the late 90s or 2000. Yeah, Rage 2 was no mic. It's just one person spamming no mic, but everyone seems to be hearing what I'm saying. He's right. You're Luke and I'm James. There's no mics here. Yeah, none. There is absolutely no... Not a single mic. But yeah, Bethesda's Rage 2 was leaked by Walmart somewhere. I'm not necessarily sure where. Oh, we're on the wrong banner. Whatever. I feel like that sponsor is going to be too mad at us. So I don't know. That's cool. More AMD boards coming. Sonos files for initial public offering. They filed with an offering size of $100 million, a placeholder amount used to calculate fees that is likely to change. I don't know. Would you buy Sonos stock off the bat? Because of that thing I mentioned earlier, I can't really invest in stock market because both countries want to tax me. Would you? Who knows? If I could, I would want to do way more research into them because I don't know enough about them right now. I would not feel comfortable right now, but I would want to do more research. It seems like Apple and Google are trying to very aggressively take over that space and neither of them seems to be buying Sonos right now. So I would be concerned. Well, that's the interesting part about it is they are going public almost because of that. They don't want competition in the space, they need money. Remember having a public offering is a fundraising activity, essentially. So I don't know. I don't think I would. Yeah. They're in a weird spot right now. But what's cool about their stuff though is later this year on their Sonos beam, which just came out, which is a sound bar, it has Alexa right now. Soon it's going to have Alexa and Google Assistant on the same device, which I've never seen. I don't think there's a device out there that has that. It would be pretty cool just to hail one assistant for one task and then just hail a different assistant. Because there is quite a few things that the overlap isn't very good. Like in the Venn diagram, there is definitely the outer circles. They're also going to be supporting Siri, but I didn't read specifically that Siri is going to be on the same device as these other assistants. And I wouldn't be surprised if there was like the Apple model and then the everyone else model because I don't see Apple wanting Siri to be on the same device as Google Assistant. It's just too much room for people to be like, hey you, answer this question. Hey you, fail at answering the same question. Side by side. Yeah. Speaking of, I'm just going to go, hey you, Seagate, I don't know. Seagate announces a mainstream SSD drive. That's pretty neat. The smallest model is going for $74, which I believe is 250 gigs. And the one terabyte model is on sale for $299. How about them steam leaks? You got to click the link though. You get to see which games have the most players. But it only works for people that have achievements outside of... Games that have developer achievements specifically. So that's about half. I think it's actually over half. 13,000 out of 23,000. Yeah. Yeah. About half of the games on there. So you can see a list. I think you went to the wrong link actually. Did I? You go to the Rs one. Darn it, medium. You guys are going to see the dock for a second. Oh my goodness. Don't look at my dock. Scroll, scroll, scroll. Get it, get it. It's leaking steam. That's pretty, pretty dang good actually. Oh. That pleases me. What? Is it not here either? Oh my. I failed you. Ah, Team Fortress 2 is in the lead. Oh, hey. Is this going to work? Oh no, man. It's on here. Go farther. Where? Farther down. They've got this stuff. There it is. Oh hey. Oh, hey. Oh, hey. Oh, hey. Oh, hey. Oh, hey. Oh, hey. Oh, hey. Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, PUBG. Player estimate. More people playing TF2. What? Really? It's all time though. Oh. It's all time. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I don't really care. I am kind of surprised by some of this stuff. Like Robocraft. I've never even heard of that. Apparently I just downloaded this CSGO. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I didn't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I just downloaded this CSV, sweet. I needed it for sure. Wow. Kyrgiosmod is that high. Wow. Paladins. I thought they were super dead. They had a lot of players. Did they go free or something? Or what if it was just from the time period that it was popular? Was Paladins ever popular? I've never heard of it. I've heard of it, but I didn't think it ever did very well. Maybe it's big in a different market or something. Is Steam like a global thing? Do people use Steam in India? I think so. Brazil and stuff? I think so. Pretty sure. Can we let these people go on with their lives now? I think we can. Yeah. Thanks for tuning into the show. Hopefully we didn't make you hate your government because this was an interesting wancho. But yeah. This is not the way. It's not. Have a good one. Bye. You make your best sound effect. Eh. Oh, eh. Oh. Oh. Ah. Thank you Fresh Bugs. Fresh Bugs. Thank you PIA. P-I-A. Thank you LTX. Thanks Colton. Hey, what a good boy. He's a good boy. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy.