BBNBonkers Broadcasting NetworkWednesday, October 14, 2026Wed, Oct 14Watch live

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What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: The New York Times.

  1. Hank LedgerThe Supreme Court is weighing how a privacy law from 1988 applies to streaming videos, email newsletters and targeted advertisements, according to The New York Times.

  2. Hank LedgerThe Video Privacy Protection Act dates from the videotape era, when the biggest threat to your dignity was a clerk reading your rental history aloud.

  3. Dale BearmanSo a law built for tapes you had to rewind is now holding back the entire internet. Marvellous.

  4. Dale BearmanThat's how civilisations end, Hank, with a justice squinting at a newsletter.

  5. Hank LedgerThe report says the justices will consider how the law fits that digital world. It doesn't say how they'll rule.

  6. Dale BearmanNine people deciding what a video store is. In twenty twenty-six.

  7. Hank LedgerA video store.

  8. Dale BearmanPicture them in the courtroom, Hank, holding a tape, rewinding it, and the whole country's targeted ads rewinding with it. I assume they'll be kind.

  9. Hank LedgerI'd welcome a ruling on my own record.

  10. Hank LedgerI still owe a late fee on a tape from nineteen ninety-eight, and I believe that clerk is still keeping the file.

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