Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we begin a new series, the world is under lockdown, and:

• [00:01:40] And Finally: a medical fetish site donates its stock of scrubs after being contacted by the NHS, cops in Hamilton bust a cocaine dealer for doing “non essential business” during the coronavirus lockdown, more cops bust a man for teaching his dog to drive, and don’t use shredded T-shirts as toilet paper…
• [00:05:47] News: the BBC suggest that the compulsory licence fee could be replaced by a broadband levy, Twitter are removing a whole bunch of misinformation but Ben Thomson at Stratechery has issues, and yet another Zoom issue, this time that they’ve misleadingly claimed that their meetings are end-to-end encrypted although the UK government don’t seem to mind…
• [00:16:40] Main discussion: What’s the role of technology, open source, open data, and the community in a large-scale crisis scenario? Are there useful ways to contribute, or is it best to just stay out of the way? Can, and should, you get involved?

Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!

https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×01-see-the-whole-staircase/12347

News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.