038 - Big Tech Censorship and the Potential Pitfalls for Them Harnessing the Power of Truth
Release Date: 05/29/2020
039 - Australian Gyms, Restaurants, Pubs & Clubs Reopening, CDC's Statistics, and Fear vs. Reality
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As the lockdown eases, everyone is itching to get back to their lives. The good news here in Australia is that gyms, physiotherapists, restaurants, cafes, pubs, clubs, shops are reopening. They, of course, all come with their own distinct rules and regulations. But this is a good thing for not only everybody's physical and mental health, their social interaction, their regular and ideal ways of life, and their hobbies, but for all those who have been without work and an income for more than three months.
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038 - Big Tech Censorship and the Potential Pitfalls for Them Harnessing the Power of Truth
The Pernosophy Podcast
With Twitter, its CEO Jack Dorsey, and the Head of Site Integrity Yoel Roth under fire after adding a fact-checking button to one of the US president Donald J Trump's tweet yesterday, things are breaking apart in the social media realm. The president has ordered an executive order on social media after his tweet about mail-in ballots being a sham and not the way any election should ever go in America. This will put social media giants such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter in the limelight and the question of what they are as companies, whether they are actually platforms open for debate on all...
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037 - The Long-Term Mental Health Impacts: A Discussion with Suicide Prevention Australia's CEO, Nieves Murray (Part II)
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On this episode, I finish the conversation with Suicide Prevention Australia's CEO, Nieves Murray. We talk about mental health and routines and staying sane during troubling times. We also discuss social distancing vs. physical distancing, hobbies, and so much more. Make sure you check out Part 1 (the previous episode) if you haven't. Thanks for tuning in :)
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036 - COVID-19 and Mental Health: A Conversation with Suicide Prevention Australia's CEO Nieves Murray (Part I))
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On this episode, I'm joined by the CEO of Suicide Prevention Australia, Nieves Murray. We talk about topics like this. We also discuss Australia's response to the virus, our health care system, what her organisation is doing alongside the Australian government, life during the virus crisis, social distancing vs. physical distancing, schedules and routines, staying sane during all of this, people's true colours, and so much more.
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035 - The Overlooked COVID-19 Impacts and Media Hysteria
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We all know the mainstream media loves to gain attention by aiming for clickbait articles, viral videos, emotionally-charged pieces that increase likes and followers. It's a popularity contest, most of the time, for most journalists. Which can warp what headlines are written and what stories get around. During the pandemic, this very thing can be the cause of so much fear and panic and unrest and uncertainty. And this is the last thing we want. We are already seeing an increase in mental health conditions like depression and anxiety. We're seeing an increase in alcohol consumption, substance...
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034 - Coronavirus Australia: Gyms To Stay Closed Until September... Really?
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As the curve continues to flatten in Australia, the mainstream media will stop at nothing to continuously inflict fear and hysteria in the public that rely on them to bring them up-to-date, unbiased, and factual information. It's unsurprising, though. It's a popularity contest for most journalists and news outlets these days. And unfortunately, the majority of people don't look further than the links that are shared over social media, nor even bother to read past the catchy headlines. One recent article that has been talked about and shared a lot among health and fitness conscious people was...
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033 - COVID Crisis: Conspiracy or Tin Foil Proposition?
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From 5G to totalitarian control to China wanting to ruin lives and relations with the rest of the globe to the west wanting to destroy everything they've built, does any of it make sense? Is there any benefit to destroying the planet? Is there any reason for a country to destroy everything they've built between the nations? Is there any reason to taking away all our rights and thoughts and and diminish our individual characteristics? What benefit would this serve? It is definitely a strange time right now for all of us who call Earth home. It's probably going to be even stranger once we start...
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032 - Are We Headed For Dystopia?
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With all these lockdowns and rules and regulations somewhat imprisoning us inside our homes during the global pandemic known as COVID-19, are we too willingly and blindly becoming obedient? Are we not speaking up or standing up for our rights enough? Are we allowing the government, or simply those in charge, to take away the freedom our forefathers worked so hard to obtain and maintain?
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031 - Intermission: COVID-19
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The global pandemic that is coronavirus-19, is testing each of us in so many different ways. It's disrupting our livelihoods and altering how we simply get around each day, socialise, what news we pay attention to, what topics we talk and think about.
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030 - Was Thanos Right?
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Was Thanos right? Are humans a plague? Is Earth and its species doomed? On this episode of The Pernosophy Podcast, I discuss population growth and its impacts, poverty, education, IQ, health, wealth, success, and prosperity. I also talk about what can happen if humans levelled up as a whole, even more so than what they already have.
info_outlineWith Twitter, its CEO Jack Dorsey, and the Head of Site Integrity Yoel Roth under fire after adding a fact-checking button to one of the US president Donald J Trump's tweet yesterday, things are breaking apart in the social media realm. The president has ordered an executive order on social media after his tweet about mail-in ballots being a sham and not the way any election should ever go in America. This will put social media giants such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter in the limelight and the question of what they are as companies, whether they are actually platforms open for debate on all sides of the fence, no matter your political interests, no matter what you think, allowing for freedom of choice, thought, and opinion, or if they are in fact publishers who are the arbiters of truth and will dictate and determine what users are exposed to.
What do you think though? Is it wrong for the big tech companies (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter) to become the arbiters of truth? Should we be worried when they start censoring people who do not align with what they think or believe in? What does it mean for these companies, who control so much attention, who harness so much power, to become the people who shape what we learn and think?
Things could be dire if, say, Hitler was allowed a YouTube channel. But even then, blocking him would be a disservice to the right to freely think and speak. Wouldn't it? Having the opportunity to say what we do think, is how it should be. No matter the ramifications. No matter if it leads to backlash and hate.
In Zucked, written by Roger McNamee, he discusses this very topic and the danger for these companies to not only obtain so much data about every single one of us, but shape what we see each day, thereby impacting our emotions. And in this episode, I discuss these topics and more.
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