Bench Banter by Boomerang Parental Control Justin Payeur

Jesse and Justin chat about violent games and their impact on kids, adults and families. For background on this subject, tune into a previous Bench Banter episode with Dr Patrick Markey, author of Moral Combat: Why the war on violent video games is wrong.

We cover recent privacy focused subjects including Facebook vs Apple, how Google's going to track us less in Chrome and decentralized social media platforms.

Jesse Miller from Mediated Reality returns in joining me for our month in review chats.

TeLeni Koochin, Publisher and founder of BAZOOF! joined us to share how she got started with BAZOOF!, a brand that creates children’s content dedicated to encourage reading and learning, deepen understanding of good health in the growing years, help readers think beyond the page in developing the building blocks of a strong character, and spark the endless creativity youth naturally have giving them opportunities to be published.
As a bonus, TeLeni is also an active Boomerang Parental Control user so she shares her experience on why she chose us over all of the other options available. 
Visit www.bazoof.com to learn more. 

A big trending topic from the past 30 days is how social media platforms have started to improve their content policies with the goal of educating their users about misinformation, old posts that may not be relevant today and flagging or remove content related to hate speech. We also discuss what is being a "Karen" and how teens with lots of time on their hands, have been mimicking the behavior. 
TikTok and several other apps were exposed by Apple's upcoming iOS14 scrapping the iOS clipboard – this resulted in these apps being able to know what you copied and were about to paste to other apps. 
The articles we referenced in the episode:
https://www.insider.com/claudia-conway-posting-anti-trump-tiktoks-2020-6
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/29/21304947/reddit-ban-subreddits-the-donald-chapo-trap-house-new-content-policy-rules
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/china-apps-banned-in-india-6482079/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/teens-in-quarantine-are-roleplaying-as-karens-on-instagram-making-fake-personas-dedicated-to-loving-wine-and-supporting-trump/ar-BB15Yjso
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tulsa-rally-trump-us-tiktok-k-pop-ticket-sales-a9577741.html
 

Dr Patrick M. Markey, PhD, is a professor of psychology, the director of the Interpersonal Research Laboratory at Villanova University, and a former president of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research. Markey received his doctorate from the University of California. Dr Markey is the author of the science based books Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong and, coming soon, "F*ck Divorce.
We discuss how violent games are used as an excuse for school shootings even when Dr Markey’s research for his book doesn’t support this direct influence that impacts a school shooters behaviour. There’s so much more to this conversation than blaming video games: mental health, racial differences, access to guns and overall wellbeing of the individual.
We also discuss how recent research continues to compare social media to the addictive nature of heroin. Mention the word addiction when comparing games such as Fortnite or Social Media, the word addiction is not being used in the sense of true addiction.
Dr Patrick Market can be found on Twitter @patmarkey
Get Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong