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Our guest this week is David Yoon. David is the New York Times bestselling author of Frankly in Love, Super Fake Love Song, and Version Zero. He’s also co-publisher of Joy Revolution, a Random House imprint dedicated to love stories starring people of color. David lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Nicola Yoon, and their daughter. You can find David on Instagram @davidoftheyoon and Twitter @davidyoon.

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MOFT Laptop Stand ($25)
This is a flat piece of die-cut magic that you stick onto the bottom of your laptop that unfolds origami-style to become a keyboard riser. Because it lifts your screen closer to eye level, it makes your laptop a billion times more ergonomic. I work wherever I happen to be, so having a stand always at the ready (without any extra gear to carry) is great. Pre-pandemic, this meant airport lounges and cafes and hotel rooms; these days, I bounce around from the kitchen to my desk to the dining table, just for a change of scenery.

Duboco A+ Book Stand ($25)
I had a pretty bad habit of reaching for my phone whenever there was a lull in life’s action. Since quarantine, lulls have become the norm—and that meant I was constantly doomscrolling (news) or envyscrolling (social media). Super bad for my mental health! So I decided to give up reading the internet entirely (which has been great) and give my attention to pre-internet era media like books. This bookstand is awesome—it slides up and down to things to proper eye level. And if I leave it with an open book always clipped in, it drastically reduces my urge to reach for my phone when I’m eating or taking a snack break simply because it eliminates any of that tiny friction keeping me from opening a book, fishing out the most recent page, and propping it up on something. In other words, the stand makes books more convenient than screens! I read a ton more as a result and my brain thanks me every day.

Remo Silentstroke quiet drum heads ($90)
I have a drum kit that used to sit in the corner collecting dust, because it was way too loud to play on a regular basis. These Silentstroke heads are made of mesh that drastically reduce the noise level without sacrificing feel—totally different from traditional mufflers, which are made of clunky hard rubber. I paired these with Zildjian’s excellent L80 Low Volume cymbals, and now I actually find myself playing drums on breaks for a few minutes at a time: a Weezer song here, a Questlove riff there. Drums are great therapy, especially these days.

Sorta adaptive note binders ($24)
I’m biased here because I invented this notebook. It looks like a normal hardcover Moleskine, but it has a trick spine that lets you easily remove the pages so you can rearrange them however you want. I invented (and patented) this thing because as much as I love notebooks, I always found them intimidating—I would worry that my dumb random notes weren’t worthy of their acid-free archival signature-bound pages. The Sorta notebook removes all that anxiety. If you write something that turns out to be useless, just take that page out and recycle it. If you don’t know where a particular note belongs, just write it down anywhere and rearrange it later. Another fun thing about Sorta is you can mix and match templates (to do lists, graph paper, etc) just how you like it. It’s like the healthy physicality of paper combined with the no-pressure random access nature of digital media.

About Version Zero:

The project I’m most excited about right now is my debut adult novel called Version Zero, which is a thriller about the internet. The story revolves around Max, a brilliant and idealistic product designer rising fast in the tech industry, who blows the whistle on his company’s sketchy use of private user data only to get fired and blackballed by the entire industry. Betrayed, he forms a hacker collective to expose the unsavory side of our internet lives; along the way, he’s contacted by a man named Pilot—a reclusive ex-tech billionaire who vanished from the scene years ago. Pilot is just as disllusioned by tech as Max is, and together they embark a mission to take the “big 5″ internet companies to task for their sins against humanity. What Max doesn’t know is that Pilot has his own mysterious reasons for starting this epic fight against his own ex-colleagues.

The story is a departure from my first two YA novels, and it draws pretty heavily from my 12+ years working first as a web designer and later as a user experience expert. I know how the online sausage is made, and let’s just say I dont’ want my 8-year-old daughter to get online for…ever, if I can manage it! Max’s story has a lot of my own anxieties and questions about the sheer speed and scale of tech in our lives, and while we in the real world tend to hem and haw about the pros and cons of constant smartphone use, Max comes to a firm decision that hopefully will be a fun and provocative source of debate for readers.

For years, you may recall that we would write about the insane nature of forum shopping for patent trolls, in which the trolls would flock to the federal courts in East Texas. Going back nearly 15 years, we wrote about how East Texas courts became grand central for patent troll cases, leading to all sorts of sketchy behavior. There are a bunch of empty office buildings setup in small Texas cities (mainly Marshall and Tyler) just to "pretend" to have offices there. Companies engaged in many patent cases started to try to suck up to residents of those small cities, in case they might be on a jury. TiVo literally bought a "Grand Champion Steer" just weeks before a jury was set to rule on a massive TiVo trolling case. Samsung threw so much money at the local "Stagecoach Days" event that it was renamed "Samsung Stagecoach Days," and built a Samsung ice rink right next to the courthouse in Marshall.

For years, people pressured Congress to fix this mess, but instead, the Supreme Court finally stepped in, with the TC Heartland ruling, and said that the proper jurisdiction should be where defendants actually are incorporated. Of course, this seemed to have the reverse effect -- as companies no longer want to be in East Texas. Apple shut down its stores there to avoid the jurisdiction.

Of course, if you thought that the judges would go quietly, you'd be wrong. It's always felt like a few judges in East Texas loved the reputation they'd built up as being super friendly to patent trolls. For a while it was Judge T. John Ward. And when he left the bench (to become a patent lawyer, natch), Judge Rodney Gilstrap stepped into the gap he left. He even tried to ignore the Supreme Court's TC Heartland decision (though the Federal Circuit appeals court was not impressed).

However, as Patent Progress notes, there's a new judge vying to be at the top of the patent troll's Christmas list, and he's in West Texas. Judge Alan Albright, a former patent litigator, was appointed to the bench in 2018 -- and he literally went on a tour to convince companies to bring patent cases in his court:

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright and attorneys who predicted last year that Waco’s federal court would become a hotbed of patent and intellectual property litigation missed their prediction just a bit.

With Albright traveling the country drumming up business and patent attorneys spreading the word that Waco’s new federal judge, a longtime patent litigator, will provide the expertise to create an efficient and welcoming environment in Waco, the response in the past year actually exceeded those predictions.

Since Albright took office in September 2018, more than 250 patent cases have been filed in the federal Western District of Texas, which includes Waco. That total eclipses the number for the previous four years combined and has made the Western District among the busiest in the country for patent cases.

It's hard to read that and not think... that's fucked up. A judge should not be "travelling the country drumming up business." There's a reason that forum shopping is a bad idea -- and this is even worse: it's forum selling. As that article notes, more and more patent law firms are now setting up business in Waco, near Albright's court, and even the troll firms in East Texas are heading just a bit west:

Waco law firm Haley & Olson announced in March it was combining forces with Mann, Tindel and Thompson, an East Texas firm that specializes in patent litigation, to capitalize on the new focus of the Waco federal court.

That should be seen as a problem, but instead, it seems to be business as usual in the federal courts of Texas.

Two law professors have now come up with a new paper delving into this troubling trend, which kicks off with a pretty telling mocked up Craigslist ad, which they say "startlingly... accurately portrays what is happening right now in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas."

The two professors -- J. Jonas Anderson and Paul Gugliuzza -- lay out the problems pretty starkly:

One judge, appointed to the court less than two years ago, has been advertising his district—through presentations to patent lawyers, comments to the media, procedures in his courtroom, and decisions in patent cases—as the place to file your patent infringement lawsuit. And he has succeeded. In 2018, the Western District received only 90 patent cases—a mere 2.5% of patent suits nationwide. In 2020, the Western District is on track to receive more than 800—the most of any district in the country. Importantly, these suits are overwhelmingly filed by so-called patent trolls—entities that don’t make any products or provide services but instead exist solely to enforce patents.

The centralization of patent cases before a single judge, acting entirely on his own to seek out patent litigation, is facilitated by the Western District’s case filing system, which allows plaintiffs to choose not just the court but the specific judge who will hear their case. These dynamics—a judge advertising for patent cases and plaintiffs shopping for that judge—undermine public confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary, make the court an uneven playing field for litigants, and facilitate the nuisance suits patent trolls favor.

As they note, it seems like an easy thing to fix if Congress had the will:

Two reforms would help solve this problem: first, district judges should—by law—be randomly assigned to cases and, second, venue in patent cases should be tied to geographic divisions within a judicial district, not just the district as a whole.

The article even details how in the midst of the pandemic, both Judge Albright and Judge Gilstrap appear to be competing to rush through as many patent cases as possible, in person, so that more trolls will file in their courts:

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended American life. Millions are unemployed. Many who still have jobs—grocery store workers, delivery drivers, healthcare providers—risk their lives every day. Those of us who are privileged have learned to work entirely from home; our biggest risk is a dancing child or stray pet wandering into the background of a Zoom meeting. COVID has disrupted the practice of law, too. Even the U.S. Supreme Court has yielded, holding oral arguments by telephone and broadcasting them live for the first time. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which hears appeals of all patent cases nationwide, has likewise suspended in-person oral arguments until further notice.

But Judge Albright appears determined to forge ahead with patent litigation as usual. Judges in other patent-heavy district courts are, too. Though some judges have compromised and held patent proceedings on Zoom, Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas, who, until last year, heard more patent cases than any judge in the country, recently denied a defendant’s motion to delay an in-person jury trial slated to begin on August 3, quoting poet Robert Frost’s idiom that “the best way out is always through.” What is going on with these judges?

They are in the midst of a vigorous competition to attract patent cases to their courtrooms. As this article shows, Judge Albright is winning. And this court competition is not good for the patent system or the court system more broadly.

As the article notes, this forum selling is the unexpected flip side of historical forum shopping. And Judge Albright seems to have figured out how to sell his court like no judge before. One of the things he'll even do is let patent holders sue in his court in Waco, transfer the case to the more convenient court in Austin... but still have Judge Albright preside over the case. Here's a simple chart of how this has played out in practice:

And again, nearly all of those are going to a single judge. If you don't see that as a problem, well, then you're probably a patent troll. Judge Albright isn't particularly shy about this either:

Immediately upon his appointment as a district judge in 2018, Judge Albright went on a media blitz, letting everyone know that his court would welcome patent litigation. The Waco Tribune-Herald reported that Judge Albright “let it be known in no uncertain terms that he would like his Waco courtroom to become a hub for IP cases.” He attended dinners for patent litigators and patent owners to extoll the virtues of trying patent cases in Waco. Judge Albright stated that he took the position in Waco because he “‘thought it was the perfect place to try and establish a serious venue for sophisticated patent litigation.’” Most tellingly, he gave a presentation at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Intellectual Property Law Association titled, “Why You should File Your Next Patent Case Across the Street from the ‘Hey Sugar,’” referring to a candy store near his Waco courthouse.

You'd think a judge would recognize just how bad this looks, but I guess not.

As the paper details, Judge Albright is the only judge in Waco, so if you file there, you're guaranteed to get him, and he's made it clear that he'll personally handle all the details of patent cases, farming out the grunt work on other cases to magistrate judges:

Secure in the knowledge that patent cases filed in Waco will be heard by Judge Albright, patent plaintiffs are even more incentivized to file in Waco because of Judge Albright’s unique assignment orders to his magistrate judge. Judge Albright assigns all cases to his magistrate to handle all non-dispositive motions—except in patent, copyright, and certain habeas corpus cases. Thus, patent plaintiffs know that Judge Albright will be personally involved in every aspect of the litigation and won’t be distracted with other, non-patent cases on his docket. That level of attention from a district judge during all stages of litigation is exceedingly rare. Delaware, for example, heavily uses magistrates in patent cases. Even the Eastern District of Texas relies on magistrates to handle important motions and pre-trial hearings, including claim construction.

For plaintiffs, choosing the Waco Division could not be simpler. Plaintiffs simply select “Waco” from a drop-down menu of divisions on the Western District’s electronic case filing system and—voila!—the case is automatically assigned to Judge Albright.

The paper goes on to detail more and more and more crazy examples of just how blatant this all is -- and why it's so problematic. At a time when there is so much else going on, I recognize that this might not seem like a priority, but it's insane. A judge is literally shopping for cases -- cases in which he's hardly an unbiased observer, having been a patent litigator before being appointed to the bench. As we've discussed at great length over the years, the closer judges are to patent lawyers, the more likely they are to support patent trolling, and not see the problems with overly broad patents, or patent trolls shaking down actual innovators.

The paper also details how Judge Albright's practices aid patent trolls (which may explain why 85% of these patent cases filed in his court are from trolls). He pushes the cases to move faster, which puts much more pressure on companies to settle to avoid the expense of litigation. And, Judge Albright is much faster than even Judge Gilstrap, whose court in Marshall was regularly called the "rocket docket" for its speed in handling patent troll cases.

And what about that TC Heartland decision that finally started pressuring Gilstrap in East Texas to transfer cases to their proper venue?

Since taking the bench, Judge Albright has likewise staunchly refused to transfer cases out of the Western District. As of July 7, 2020, he has decided thirteen motions seeking transfer away from the Western District under § 1404(a); he has denied eleven. In fact, in a recent order, Judge Albright effectively told Apple—which has been sued at least ten times in cases assigned to Judge Albright and regularly seeks to have those cases moved to the Northern District of California—to stop filing transfer motions.

They do note that the Federal Circuit recently ordered Albright to transfer one of his cases, involving Adobe, and threw some shade at his current failure to regularly transfer cases. Hopefully that means it starts pushing back on him more often.

Again, there's a lot more in the paper, and it's all crazy that this is allowed in a federal court. Congress has many things on its plate, but it should do something to fix this jurisdiction selling by Judge Albright.

On July 2nd,1999, Ricky Byrdsong was out for a jog near his home in Skokie, Illinois, with two of his young children, Sabrina and Ricky Jr. The family outing would end in tragedy. His children watched helplessly as their father was gunned down. He was the victim of a Neo-Nazi on a murderous rampage targeting Jewish, Asian and Black communities. Ten other people were left wounded. Won-Joon Yoon, a 26 year-old graduate student at the University of Indiana, would also be killed.

When you distill someone's life down to their final minutes, it does a disservice to their humanity and how they lived. Though I didn't know Won-Joon Yoon, I met Coach Byrdsong — one of few Black men's head basketball coaches in the NCAA — through my father, who is also part of this small fraternity. As head coaches in Illinois in the late 90s, their names were inevitably linked to each other. They occasionally played one another. Beyond his passion for basketball, Coach Byrdsong's love of God, and his commitment to community and family shone bright.

Coach Byrdsong was the first Black head basketball coach at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. His appointment was a big deal: Northwestern is a private university in an NCAA "power conference," with a Black undergraduate population of less than 6%. I visited Northwestern's arena when my dad was an assistant coach at the University of Illinois. At 11-years old, I remember being surrounded by belligerent college students making ape noises. When I hear jangling keys at sporting events, I'm transported back to the visceral feeling of being surrounded by thousands of (white) college students, alumni and locals, shaking their car keys while smugly chanting "that's alright, that's ok, you will work for me one day."

Their ditty, directed towards a basketball court overwhelmingly composed of Black, working-class student athletes, seemed to say: you don't belong here, and you never will — a sentiment that still saturates the campus. This is the world that Neo Nazi Benjamin Smith came from. Smith was raised in Wilmette, Illinois, one of the richest and whitest suburbs in the country, less than five miles from where he killed Coach Byrdsong.

The digital boundaries that exist online, much like the neighborhood ones, carve up communities often by ethnicity, class, and subculture. In these nooks a shared story and ideology is formed that reinforces an "us against the world" mentality. It's debatable whether that's intrinsically bad — but in this filter bubble, it is hard to see our own reflection accurately, let alone others. This leaves both our digital and physical bodies vulnerable.

Matthew Hale, Smith's mentor and founder of the World Church of the Creator, was an early adopter of Internet technology. He was part of a 90s subculture of white nationalists that flocked to the web, stitching a digital hood anonymizing those who walk and work amongst us. Hale's organization linked to white power music, computer games, and developed a website "Creativity for Kids," with downloadable white separatist coloring books. They used closed chat rooms and internet forums to rile up thirst for a race war. They understood the importance of e-commerce as a vehicle for trafficking hate, and they experimented with email bombing and infiltrating chat rooms.

Beyond being tech savvy, Hale was also a lawyer, who in 1999 was being defended by the ACLU. The Illinois Bar Association had denied Hale's law license based on his incitement of racial hatred and violence against ethnic and religious groups. The ACLU has had a long run of defending white nationalists including Charlottesville "Unite the Right" organizer Jason Kessler. In 1978 they defended the organizers of a Skokie Nazi march, the same community where Coach Byrdsong was assassinated. At the time 1 in every 6 Jewish residents there was either a survivor, or directly related to a survivor of the Holocaust.

Hale's law license was rejected based on three main points:

1. That a lawyer's responsibility to uphold equal justice for all, is compromised when their sworn allegiance to one race comes before the greater good.

2. That freedom of speech did not offer protection from the consequences of speech, nor did it mean validation and accreditation for dangerous speech, which an approved law license would imply.

3. That the community standards, values and guidelines set by the law association gave the judging body the ability to define based on a set of socially accepted criteria, what goes outside the bounds of decency and morality. From their standpoint, being an avowed Klansman, given their history of lynchings and terrorism, clearly crossed that line.

But Hale felt entitled to the right to speech with impunity. And the ACLU mounted a vigorous defense of that. What rights we are owed by institutions, is a question that divides even those that are normally aligned. Though tech companies say their role is to ensure that all speech matters, free speech does not mean the right to content or user validation, amplification or freedom to incite violence. This is why groups that are deemed terrorist threats by companies don’t have the same stranglehold that white nationalists enjoy. That they remain so openly prevalent speaks more to a tacit societal acceptance of white nationalist ideologies than it does the matter of free speech.

Free speech as a red herring is used as a wedge to politicize universal rights conversations, falsely brand common sense content moderation policies as "anti-" speech, freedom, and liberties. It's an argument that's routinely manipulated to shield corporations that get rich off of if it bleeds it leads incentive structures but aren't willing to accept the responsibility that comes from being about that life. Moreover, it chills the ability of marginalized groups to advocate for safer spaces.

Already, indoctrination can occur organically by nature of the interest-driven algorithmic models that permeate the platforms and trap people into digitally segregated neighborhoods. I put these algorithms to the test when I started using a device to research white nationalist communities. I found that when the computer read my data profile, it fundamentally changed my user experience. "Hey you follow Mike Cernovich," Twitter would note, "try following David Duke or David Horowitz." Amazon would see I was looking up books about Lauren Southern and make sure I knew I could also buy Mein Kampf. I was bombarded with YouTube conspiracy videos about the deadly Blacks in Chicago. With no fact check mechanism in sight, my world was shaped by who the internet thought I was. Once relegated to that bubble, it was hard to get out.

Institutions like the Harvard Shorenstein Center and Data and Society document how hate groups build power online. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are over 1,000 hate groups active in the United States. Beyond these known hate groups there are many loosely organized factions and countless sympathizers that are one bad quarantine day away from unleashing.

In our constricted online universe ruled by clickbait gods and monsters, it takes a special type of disassociation to say that words have the power to change the world yet there should be no boundary to them. Every morning there is another father, mother, son, daughter, or person tying up their shoes to go out for a jog, a person who could be the next Ricky Byrdsong or Ahmaud Arbery. Somewhere online at this very moment another Benjamin Smith is being groomed for violence. So many of them exist that their story may never make it out of their community filter bubble. According to 2018 data from the FBI there were 7,120 hate crime incidents reported that year. Often hate crimes — particularly against women of color and trans people — go unreported. While there's a slight dip in the total number of hate crimes overall, according to the FBI, the severity of violence is getting worse.

In 2018 Change the Terms, a coalition of 50 civil and human rights organizations, released a set of model corporate principles for dealing with hate speech. Color Of Change helped develop the framework, which encourages transparency, right to appeal, and baseline criteria for defining hate speech. The coalition is composed of either represented constituencies disproportionately targeted for hate crimes, or organizations that emphasize racial, gender, identity or religious justice in their mission. While the organizations have helped lead a culture shift in Silicon Valley, there is still much work to be done.

Matthew Hale, the pied piper of amateur racists, uses his Internet platform to lure in people like Benjamin Smith. When testifying in support of Hale's petition for a law license, Smith told the court "He's given me spiritual guidance...When I first met him, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with my life, what direction I was going to go." Weeks later Smith killed two people before committing suicide. From prison Hale churns out hate propaganda you can buy on Amazon.

The adage "I don't agree with what you say but I defend to the death your right to say it," is often used to prop verbal violence. But history shows that disproportionately Black and Brown bodies get sacrificed in the name of boundless white speech. For some, Matthew Hale is a cause worth theoretically dying for. Reminders of the lives he had a hand in snuffing out are often met with a digital shoulder shrug on Twitter. It's as though everyone murdered for simply existing are merely the proverbial spilt milk, splashed on the floor for the greater good of the communities left to mourn them.

Rarely have these free speech martyrs actually suffered the life and death consequences of their absolutism. I begrudge anyone their righteous cause who knows what it means to mourn yet still believe. But over Independence Day weekend in 1999, Coach Ricky Byrdsong and Won-Joon Yoon did die. The online legacy left by their assassin and his enablers would empower and inspire a killer to walk into Emanuel African American Methodist church and murder nine people, another one to massacre 11 in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and yet another to gun down 49 people in New Zealand in the Muslim community of Christchurch.

Each of them set in motion the real-world consequences of an online model that monetizes polarization. And all of them left behind digital breadcrumbs for the next monster. Coach Byrdsong is one of multiple stories I could share about someone I knew who was killed or assaulted because of their ethnicity, gender identity, sexuality or religion. For me, free speech can not truly be free when it operates on a sliding scale weighted against those with the most to lose, and it will never hold more intrinsic value than human lives.

Brandi Collins-Dexter is a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and a senior fellow at Color Of Change. She is currently writing a book about Black participation in democracy and the US economy, with particular focus on the role technology and information integrity play in improving or deteriorating community health.

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Philadelphia is joining New York, Chicago, Dallas, Boston, Houston, and Denver as the latest city to get free streaming of local, over-the-air TV stations from an innovative non-profit “digital translator” service.

Locast began streaming 15 local Philadelphia broadcasters on Monday, viewable on computers and portable devices including Roku, laptops, smartphones, and tablets.

Locast Philadelphia Lineup (Partial)

• 2 — KJWP Wilmington, Del./Philadelphia (MeTV)
• 3 — KYW Philadelphia (CBS)
• 6 — WPVI Philadelphia (ABC)
• 10 –WCAU Philadelphia (NBC)
• 12 — WHYY Wilmington, Del. (PBS)
• 17 — WPHL Philadelphia (MyTV)
• 29 — WTXF Philadelphia (FOX)
• 57 — WPSG Philadelphia (CW)
• Unknown Station
• 65 — WUVP Vineland, N.J. (Univision)
• 69 — WFMZ Allentown (Ind.)

So far, Locast has survived while services like Aereo have not, because it is was designed to exploit a loophole in the Copyright Act of 1976.

Under Title 17, Chapter 1, section 111 (a)(5) of the Act, Locast is legal because the law exempts anyone who offers a “secondary transmission not made by a cable system but is made by a governmental body, or other nonprofit organization, without any purpose of direct or indirect commercial advantage, and without charge to the recipients of the secondary transmission other than assessments necessary to defray the actual and reasonable costs of maintaining and operating the secondary transmission service,” from having to get permission from the stations involved.

David Goodfriend, a Washington, D.C. attorney and founder of Locast, may only have legal exposure if a court determines the law was intended to cover translator television broadcasting, not online streaming. But so far, broadcasters and their lobbying groups, including the National Association of Broadcasters, have surprisingly ignored Locast and its gradual expansion.

Because the service is offered free of charge, Locast accepts voluntary contributions from viewers who use and appreciate the service. Goodfriend keeps costs down by leasing space on an affordable building’s roof, places a traditional TV antenna on it, and then contracts with a local internet service provider to distribute the signals over the internet. To remain legal, Locast asks to verify all of its viewers’ locations, and only permits viewing inside a covered city’s reception area.

Locast founder David Goodfriend recently appeared on Cheddar to discuss Locast and how it can be an ally for traditional TV broadcasters. (5:49)

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