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Oct 15

1h 41m

About Livestreamed Executions and Fighti...

Andrew Heaton, Jen Briney, Justin Robert Young

About this episode

The gang digs into the Pentagon’s plan to livestream the execution of the Fort Hood shooter. Does broadcasting an execution serve the public, or turn justice into a spectacle? Then they turn to California’s effort to shut down a human-versus-robot fight club. Should consenting adults be allowed to take on a robot, and does a regulator whose rules cover fights between people get a say?

Chapters

00:00:00 - Intro

00:10:48 - Livestreamed Executions

00:42:23 - Fighting Robots

00:57:10 - Emails

01:38:09 - Wrap-up

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