us new company neural link is busy creating flexible threads that could be implanted into your brain and give you the ability to control your computer or smartphones with just your thoughts. talk about hands free well this may sound like something out of a faraway future in a william gibson novel it is not in fact many companies have been working on technology similar to what musk in luxembourg are developing into giant breakthroughs using it to help people suffering from paralysis salmon reports that over the past dozen years a number of paralyzed patients have received brain implants that allow them to move a computer cursor or control robotic arms but medical breakthroughs aside allowing the big business of attack and then by extension the surveillance state into the pathways of our brains has many rightfully nervous. so today are we ready to lose our heads to the humdrum of consumer can be once a convenience and social media well my friends let's find out as we start watching the hawks. it looks

like. it's good. to. see. what they like you know that i got. was that we. would. be. a. lot more on the watching the hawks are able to read and i'm tired of all this and joining us today to discuss the legal and ethical end of the new brain to computer interfaces was legal and media analyst lionel offline on media thanks for joining us. i like the ethical part because when it comes out the x. your guy. was sued the ethics i am the standard bearer of that don't laugh i am you know i'm a both you and me we're not going but i love your show right now is

a little you know i think many people still believe that this type of technology is you know buried deep in our future but we actually are very close to this becoming reality and i was reading some words like within 5 years even lionel are you ready to let facebook read your thoughts rather than take the time to type them. promise me this well 1st let me thank you for talking about this because i have been screaming about this to the point where people are saying is he. because we have this cutesy idea about oh it's not great like robots isn't that great a i r 2 d 2 how sweet danger will robinson oh i love technology which is the way it always comes about. let me ask you this question in reverse you know when we have. this perennial subject of today aqua fatty or trans union had millions and millions of of social security numbers hacked that people go crazy one have somebody hacked my

brain to start off without one it's a nice thought anything you put in me anything that you are able to either through telepathy or telemetry or anything how about this reading minds through my vocalisations you know when we think something believe it or not we sometimes say it and there are little pieces of almost that tape as you can place on or about the the throat area to pick up actually pick up micro vocalisations how many times have you watched something thought about something and on your screen lo and behold google wants to sell you that. burial plot when you were thinking about and passing away now there is a rule here if you're hearing about it now it's 5 years old but anything you hear now and then what they do is they also they enter it they start to talk about it like maybe one of these days we could sucker berg says you know maybe one day we'll

be able to do to 2 thought coming and facebook them is already in the works so my question is who prevents or even thinks about not the evil dr no or somebody but somebody who just wants to hack your thought change your thought affect ability perhaps create the perfect warrior the perfect student the perfect spouse the politician i mean where does this end and is anybody even thinking about it those are my course those are those are really good question where are those available. and which brings me to want of what you said the. might well of a vacuum. if i think one of the biggest concerns is this idea of taking something that could be really brilliant to help you know people with physical disabilities and all of that and turning it into this idea of neuro capitalism and cyclists they should have our data you know i am all for if we can help people with that but what

is this idea of neuro capitalism and what are some of the dangers you know that it can represent to people you know we're all walking around looking for you know a little alexa to just make life a little easier but what's the danger and the. well the danger is number one is unregulated because there's nobody and this is i think of the most important part is that when somebody comes up with this there is never the ask the system valving because we are so tech crazy i'm a tech nerd hey i'm a silicon valley guy i've got this new thing where you look at you look at a phone and it opens it isn't that cool. when you have a generation that has been. and brought up in captivity who doesn't even appreciate what the notion of privacy means how my supposed for the 1st part 1st time introduce them to it then begins to into the notion of transhumanism let me talk about that for a moment isn't it great that somehow we can actually by virtue of science. allow

somebody who has lost a limb to to have it replaced and to have it done say mostly through thought yes what could go wrong with the 1st person who ever made a naive fool said i have this great device here it cuts and i can use it to skin animals and here would you like to see it and he would like probably stab you know alfred nobel we know those stories so every single thing that we've ever done whether it's from the you know the aspirin probably to now has saved more lives probably would even be allowed in the market today it's that dangerous so what's it going to be and. that is going to come under being presented right now because a researcher at zurich marcelo has proposed a sort of international recognize right specific to our thoughts and our brains in response to this new technology in fact chiller has 2 bills that would make brain data protection a human right but they cannot go in and mess with your thoughts take your thoughts mess with your mind business or governments and i ask you is that i will we should

be talking about should that be in the halls of congress do we need to clarify a set of rights for our our thoughts and our minds or does our existing laws already protect them do or does our bill of rights already have that protection and would just be overkill. bill of rights no but you're on to something how do i take a generation and because let's face it the older generation were gone for in the back 9 nobody cared about us but do you but but the newer folks ok and i speak only for myself here but if i could somehow take the interest that we had overnight in ringback paid. her straws recently it was something i'd say are you seeing this people who don't care about anything war as our eyes jim all did nothing but all of a sudden by god we're not going to have plastic straws if i could say good you have

that in you you have a century and part of you you have an impasse think part of you now let's see if i can take that a step further let's talk about somebody taking over your mom and taking over your and don't be don't let some smooth talker come in to say listen tyrrell and have that whenever a comedian speaks he's affecting your opinion whenever somebody shows you a film we understand that that what makes us human beings stop the gobbledygook at the poppy cock and stop this what we're talking about is simply this do we have either ombudsman do we have our own ethical standards where we say yes go ahead and implant something to stop seizures we're all for that however you have to satisfy us that this device cannot be put in to make a person more malleable to make him voted a particular way to make him buy something or that's that's what we as

a citizenry have to do collectively we most of it would do it thank you for using the word poppycock by the way right now at all of what i mean if you. don't have to offer is a poison of your own but it's a once or. thank you. tragedy struck off the california coast on monday as a commercial dive boat caught fire just in the water near santa cruz island with more than 30 people reported to have been killed by the fire and many are now left wondering just how this tragic fire happened in the 1st place and what if anything could have been done to protect to prevent it or to america's correspondent has more. such a rare horrific tragedy on this labor day weekend after 20 bodies have been recovered another 14 remain missing and authorities say that after 7 missions and no signs of life they have called off all search and rescue efforts 5 crew members were able to survive let's take a listen to the distress call made by the captain experienced.

you just heard the captain of the conception call into the coast guard after waking up to a massive boat fire around 3 30 am monday just east of santa cruz island 75 a vessel was carrying 33 passengers and 5 crew members 34 of the 39 aboard the boat were reportedly sleeping below death when the fire broke out and in the distress call to the coast guard dispatch was asking the captain if he could unlock the lower dock so the passengers could escape but according to officials the boat was fully in safety compliance roger is nobody that's really the key problem because the majority of the people were the passengers on the ship and the sleeping compartment is in the bottom deck of the ship so they would have been sound asleep when this fire started so you can imagine that of all scenarios to be in a remote location have a fire that occurs have eliminated any firefighting capabilities that could address that and then to have all the center fire discredit very very rapidly. you couldn't

ask for a worse situation 20 victims have been transported to the coroner's office 11 females and 9 males diverse spotted another 4 to 6 victims within the wreckage the captain and 4 crew members jump. in the water and were rescued by a good samaritan with a boat called the great escape the owner of that boat says there would have been more than enough room for everyone to leave the burning boats and to safely be transferred back to the marina the vessel reportedly sink to the ocean floor about 20 yards from the shore 4 hours after the fire began right now it's sitting upside down in 62 feet of water diving excursion to explore san miguel island left on saturday and was due back monday evening and as the family and friends remain in the state of shock authorities have set up an assistance center and there officials are hoping to give loved ones the information they need and psychological care if so desired and authorities are still trying to determine the cause of that deadly

fire in ventura county natasha suites our team. as we get a break or quarters don't forget to let us know what you think about topics to cover the social media be sure to check out watch watch the podcast with overboard spotify up because everywhere you will see the pod coming up with us president donald trump holding a campaign fundraiser in beverly hills some democratic celebrities are now calling for the list of attendees to be published in the new ollywood blacklist in the works let's find out stay true to what. i. mean.

ever since the arrival of boris johnson to 10 downing street there's a growing sense of inevitability that brags it will be executed on october 31st with or without a deal i mean we get to this point what lessons have been learned. small seems wrong. but old rules just don't hold. the world to get to shape out just because to educate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. i. ready ready ready

am sure to stop at the continuing to grow. i just never know very good about the idea of bringing children into the world because i didn't feel like things were or were in very good shape that a life was just going to be a lot of software programs. but. there's no reason the more kids you take things that are to me the movies on the move something else that needs to be loved and everybody's scared to talk about it survival is truly dependent on us addressing this issue and if we can even talk about it if we can't even have a conversation of that it then. we're in trouble ready.

the protests in hong kong show no signs of stopping even in the face of threats of force from the police and even as a number of activists with the with the men within the movement were arrested over the weekend r t america's michelle green sting is in hong kong the latest. these days in hong kong what starts as a peaceful rally often turns violent citing this violence the hong kong police banned a march that had been planned for saturday they warned that anyone in attendance would be liable for arrest. or unlawful valan. that didn't stop thousands of hong kong years who came out to march anyway fight for freedom stand with hong kong liberate hong kong and hong kong is not china these are all chance

that i've been hearing this afternoon it's saturday and protesters have been out in full force for the better part of the day even though those marching were breaking the law hong kong police wouldn't make the 1st arrest until much later. a saturday evening sets and protesters around government orders police hold up a warning that reads disperse or we fire some try sending flares and petrol bombs over the barricades as police stand on the roof with a rifle at 6 pm someone sets one of the barriers on fire eventually the pepper spray comes out then the tear gas and finally a water cannon sometimes it's laced with blue dye away for the police to identify suspects later as the sun sets hundreds of riot police move in to break the siege demonstrators warn each other and retreat here you can see some of the bricks that protesters have been throwing at the police we also saw some petrol bombs being thrown by these demonstrators as well now over here you can see that riot police

have arrived to push back against the protesters that were approaching the legislative council and now this because all the demonstrators to start marching that way after retreating from government headquarters protesters build a massive barricade and set it on fire using petrol bombs it's about 7 30 pm and a fire has broken out in the one side district now this is right in front of the headquarters of the hong kong police. the fire department arrived about the fire at this point the protesters have advanced to the next flashpoint causeway bay the police are not far behind at causeway bay protesters prepare for the arrival of the riot police on the front lines they tied tripwire their arms and bricks and cocktails when our camera man tries to. accord these weapons protesters shield them with umbrellas i was able to get some of this footage with my phone when tear gas was eventually thrown by the police protestors through the canisters back the night

culminates in 63 people being arrested for criminal damage possession of offensive weapons and explosives and illegal assembly since the protest had been banned on sunday protesters set up a barricade around the airport with luggage cart they disable security cameras and damaged property they blocked access to the airport and forced travelers to walk miles into the city their damage of the nearby metro station forces its closure monday night remnants of the weekend's events hang in the air the demonstrators have blocked both the red and the yellow lights at this traffic stop to have the sign read free hong kong now it's monday evening and the scene here in front of the government headquarters is actually pretty calm we've had students mostly young people i got to say i have not seen a single person that looks over $25.00 in this crowd here tonight hong kong police say a total of $159.00 people were arrested over the weekend the situation remains fluid and beijing has reminded the international community of its authority to declare

a state of emergency in hong kong if the unrest and disorder persists through watching the hawks michelle greenstein r t. 1947 the house committee on un-american activities subpoena just started with $79.00 hollywood actors screen writers and producers on the claim that they were subversive and that they injected communist propaganda into their films now some are comparing the cold war's darkest days what america turned on and turned in their fellow americans for the crime of having a political view some did not like which brings us to 2019 when the hollywood reporter noted that president trump would be attending a fundraiser in beverly hills that's on television actress debra messing calls for the hollywood reporter to quote please print a list of all attendees please. the public has a right to know of course political contributions are public record and massing along with anyone else can find out who has given money to the trump campaign all

by themselves i don't mean the hollywood reporter however the idea of making a list of people who may have attended a political event smells distinctly like 50 shades of mccarthyism and to make matters even weirder massing took the attention on her comments to post an invitation to text her for more in-depth private discussion with the will and grace star take a listen. twitter is great but i wanted a way to communicate about issues and to go more deeply than we can on twitter so text me. crazy. maybe but what is entirely unsettling for so many is whether debra messing scholes for lists will stop at the top brass of producers and financier's or will it spread to which cinematographers caterers and production assistants will be allowed to work how many will lose their careers

their homes their livelihoods for another cold war red scare that history will of this or a just as brutally as it did the last one and will those like messing ever understand how dangerous their rhetoric truly can be boy that's a that is a really good question because i don't know at this point when i see folks do you know what i see her doing something like this i have to sit back and say dude are you not aware of the shaky ground you're walking on calling for maims to be maimed and i'm not a supporter of donald trump the republican party's or anyone watching mashona like nobody here is like toeing the line for a trump. but this is this is not how you know this is not how you know of all things in hollywood given the history that you mention you should not be asking for a list and like you said they could look at it online i know who gives them money google it learn how politics actually works before you're going to suddenly put

yourself on this this pedestal of being this great political leader and you know it's one thing if you are actually a politician if you work in some sort of industry that that has to work with the government and you want to do that but if you are going to put yourself in a position like debra messing where she is an actress who is becoming politically involved which i'm all for you should speak up but this well it's this is like slowly poking at people and there's something else about this whole like tax to me which i know that when some of your end up the conversation tax to me i'm like well i'm one of my 19 i'm not a texter and you all for that but so i want to just talk about what is really. so what like her idea of text me isn't great but i realize that the phone number she put up to tag just isn't really a phone number it's one of those voice over ip like skype phone number which is fine so i decided to text her and ask if. she after texting her so you get

a response that says hey it's debra. this is an auto response you know here we go but in order to get a response from her you now next must give you your 1st and last name gender identity birthday and city and it's much as i could see from this what other people have reported you absolutely have to put your birthday and i centrally her entire call to engage people comes off like a big old data capture scam what is she going to do with all my information what are you who are you giving this list to and again if you're going to say like we're going to do this why are you the making at this but you have to sign up and give me your information if twitter is so what's the difference thank you if you're on twitter or just talk to if that's what you want to do engage with people they're not under your terms and which you can then surveil them and keep track of them this is exactly how this stuff and being a problem as it did back in the 1st red scare and you know the other not the only

one and i'm not the only dirty liberal who. is wrong you are you sure you with with ms will be goldberger so choose other goes on the viewer really want to respond to resonate with this quote saying listen the last time people did this people of the killing themselves this is not a good idea ok your idea of who you don't want to work with is your personal business do not encourage people to print out a list because the next list that comes out your name will be on and then people be coming after you that's exactly a good point because whatever whatever you do don't protest the other side's going to do in protest by example only seen that over and over again i mean we see it and there's always a pushback there is blowback to whatever gets done especially when it's irrational you know like do you think 1st of all it's the same of the same conservatives who is going to be at this who's going to whoever will be we must know it's such a i'll tell you who do you can. james woods probably.

angeles. boy john boy probably going to be there it's like literally it's a handful of people here and a bunch of financier is an executive producers and people who have nothing to do with the movie business just because it's in beverly hills not everybody in beverly hills is a movie. and again i just don't like the idea of this idea like she said that was not a good time it was not a good time especially when you consider yourself a liberal democrat you know because that was a time where they specifically targeted they specifically targeted you targeted unions of the red scares were not as i would have the entire point of what happened in hollywood started because there were 2 major strikes from the unions there that affected the hollywood bottom line and that is why you then had people like ronald reagan go up in front of congress and say that the league of women voters was a communist front and that all of these unions and everything were going to ruin

america with their you know commie movie isn't everything so when you think about the people that charlie chaplin's and all these people who were were blocked listed and well you say there was just over anything people used it and this is going to be the new thing if you don't want someone to be in a movie and you want you want to get their parts you just point in time and go you're account me you're a joe stein voter and so you know you're oh yeah you know whatever your employer is let's see curious like you go roll this back i mean look we all know fox news and trump had a little bit of problem but ultimately fox news members support each other so what are you going to devore of fox is owned by disney how are you not at this point when only 6 companies learning is there to do business more that's ridiculous i mean it's because there's 5. everybody has a right to their political beliefs but at the end of the day we've got a you know you can't be let loose like this quote we can't be pushing yeah all right everybody that is our show for you to remember on in this world we're not told the real love to tell you all. i am a robot and i thought a lot of people watching those arcs that were great day and later.

joined me every thursday on the alex salmond's show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport that's less i'm show business i'll see you than. during the great depression which i'm old mr remember there was and most of my family were unemployed working plus other wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation that things were going to get

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