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Never Post's producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our contributing producer is Meghal Janardan. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show's host is Mike Rugnetta. 

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In the latest installment of Terms & Conditions, Georgia chats with author, professor, and digital piracy expert Aram Sinnreich about torrenting. Peer-to-peer file sharing isn’t new, nor is the legal controversy surrounding it. But what is torrenting? Why does it have such a marred reputation, and what role does it play in our online lives? 
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The U.S. ban on foreign internet routers

Explainer on the router ban

Hachette pulls “Shy Girl” off shelves

Meta loses NM lawsuit on child endangerment

Meta and Youtube fined for creating addictive social platforms

Judge demands DOGE deposition be removed from YouTube

DOGE depositions are back online

Supreme Court rules in favor of Cox Media in piracy suit

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Terms & Conditions: On Torrenting

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Executive Producer Jason Oberholtzer speaks to Dr. Jess Rauchberg about how the lolcow — a vulnerable Internet persona interacting with an unreliable and often malicious audience — relates to contemporary politics online and historic medieval spectacle.
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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
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Originally published in our first episode I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here on January 31, 2024, enjoy Georgia's segment talking to Professor Elizabeth Wissinger about how the social internet helped erase an entire fashion demographic — namely, tween fashion for girls.
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This Year's Model: Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour

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Contributing producer and Kabul-based journalist Ali Latifi tells the story of a roughly 48-hour period, at the end of 2025, when the Taliban turned off the entire internet in Afghanistan.
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Cord Cutters

https://bsky.app/profile/netblocks.org/post/3mgrehog7wk23

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project

The Internet, Switched Off  

Internet Shutdown: How Governments Weaponize Connectivity

Iran’s regime has shut down the internet in the middle of war

How Iran shut down the internet and built a sophisticated system of digital control

Afghanistan imposes internet blackout: What has the effect been so far?

The Kremlin says the internet is turned off to stop drone attacks. Russians are fed up

Blocked and Bypassed: Russians Evade Internet Censorship 

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https://authory.com/Ali
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Thank you to Suha, Fara, Saeed, Samir, Ramin, Mohammad, Hamed, Jabar, Sanam Muradi, Haroun Rahimi, Naser, Ahmad Azizi and Saeed.
This episode’s Contributing Producer is Ali Latifi. Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
1. These are the vague demands you make on me
2. (that I) assemble
(to) recollect
(to) decode
(   ) associate
3. that I admit, fraught with difficulty, reintegration
is no day at the beach in eggshell tints
“The inmates start to get brave and a little crazy”
when they hear that friendly voice–the matron
4. (But that’s also my mind, lost)
Her epic poem on the constraints society places on the
5. misunderstood
Excerpt of Sybil by Rebecca Wolf 
Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia