KQED|1122 - Why The Ethan Klein Fair Use Lawsuits Are Way More Than Internet Beef
Ever wonder where the internet stops and IRL begins? Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor. From internet trends to AI slop to the politics of memes, Close All Tabs covers it all.
How will AI change our jobs and lives? Is the government watching what I post? Is there life beyond TikTok? Host Morgan Sung pulls from experts, the audience, and history to add context to the trends and depth to the memes. And she’ll wrestle with as many browser tabs as it takes to explain the cultural moment we’re all collectively living.
Morgan Sung is a tech journalist whose work covers the range of absurdity and brilliance that is the internet. Her beat has evolved into an exploration of social platforms and how they shape real-world culture. She has written for TechCrunch, NBC News, Mashable, BuzzFeed News and more.
We love listening to shows about technology and culture like Power User with Taylor Lorenz, ICYMI, Wow If True, Hard Fork, There Are No Girls On the Internet, Endless Thread, Uncanny Valley from Wired, It’s Been a Minute, and You’re Wrong About. If you like them too, then trust us–you’ll like Close All Tabs.
00:00
00:00
에피소드 설명이 없습니다.
게시일05 8월 2026
재생 시간49:36
에피소드
1122-
Why The Ethan Klein Fair Use Lawsuits Are Way More Than Internet Beef
청취함
05 8월 2026
1121-
Introducing: Dream Machines from KQED
청취함
03 8월 2026
1120-
The Pink Pill Pipeline and the Online War Against Birth Control
청취함
29 7월 2026
1119-
How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye (Reload)
청취함
22 7월 2026
1118-
Are We Doomed If The Internet Goes Dark?
청취함
15 7월 2026
1117-
'Get The Flock Out': The Fight Over License-Plate Readers Heats Up
청취함
08 7월 2026
1116-
Meet the Grads Grappling With AI and Their Futures
청취함
01 7월 2026
1115-
The $55B Deal That Has Sims Players Worried
청취함
24 6월 2026
1114-
A Queer History of The Sims
청취함
17 6월 2026
1113-
How To Prove You're Not AI
청취함
10 6월 2026
1112-
Escaping the Surveillance Pricing Trap
청취함
03 6월 2026
1111-
Musk v. Altman Was Peak Silicon Valley Theatrics
청취함
27 5월 2026
1110-
Iran Is Winning The Slopaganda War
청취함
20 5월 2026
1109-
How an OnlyFans Model and a Cosplayer Are Fighting Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn
청취함
13 5월 2026
1108-
My Therapist Is a Chatbot (Reload)
청취함
06 5월 2026
1107-
Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware
청취함
29 4월 2026
1106-
The H-1B Visa Process But Make It a Video Game
청취함
22 4월 2026
1105-
Save or Scroll: Looksmaxxing, AI Fruit Love Island, BTS Arirang, and Meta Lawsuits
청취함
15 4월 2026
1104-
The Secret Lives of Mormon Momfluencers
청취함
08 4월 2026
1103-
Bee Movie, "We Are Charlie Kirk," and the Enduring Bait-and-Switch Meme
청취함
01 4월 2026
1102-
To Hack a Tractor: How Farmers Won the Right to Repair
청취함
25 3월 2026
1101-
The Fight for Your Right to Repair
청취함
18 3월 2026
1100-
'Twitter on a Vape' and The Great E-Waste Crisis
청취함
11 3월 2026
1099-
Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws
청취함
04 3월 2026
1098-
Send Pics? Roblox Wants to Know Your Age
청취함
26 2월 2026
1097-
Lessons for U.S. Netizens from Behind China’s Great Firewall
청취함
18 2월 2026
1096-
Love In The Time Of Doom Scrolling
청취함
11 2월 2026
1095-
How the AI Data Center Boom Impacts Black Communities
청취함
04 2월 2026
1094-
The Real Cost of AI Slop
청취함
28 1월 2026
1093-
Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think
청취함
21 1월 2026
1092-
Are You Allowed to Record ICE?
청취함
14 1월 2026
1091-
Save or Scroll: OpenAI’s Head of Preparedness, Global RAM Shortage, AI Artists, and a Manosphere Antidote
청취함
07 1월 2026
1090-
Death, Robotaxis, and a Cat Named KitKat
청취함
17 12월 2025
1089-
One Year Later, The Internet’s Still Talking About Luigi Mangione
청취함
10 12월 2025
1088-
What Happened to Purple Moon Games for Girls?
청취함
03 12월 2025
1087-
Meet Ukraine’s ‘Geeks of War’
청취함
19 11월 2025
1086-
Where Do Games Go When They Die?
청취함
12 11월 2025
1085-
Alice Bucknell on How Virtual Spaces Help Us Cope With Reality
청취함
05 11월 2025
1084-
A Political Reckoning for Twitch?
청취함
29 10월 2025
1083-
Satanic Panic in the Age of the Internet
청취함
22 10월 2025
1082-
Beyond the AI Hype Machine
청취함
15 10월 2025
1081-
The All-Seeing Eyes of Modern Dating
청취함
08 10월 2025
1080-
In Search of Thock: The Quest for the Perfect Keyboard
청취함
01 10월 2025
1079-
AI Prophets and Spiritual Delusions
청취함
24 9월 2025
1078-
Groypers, Doxxing and Charlie Kirk’s Death as a S***post