New Rule: Your Phone is Turning You into an Asshole | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

[Applause] and finally new rule apple needs to re-continue to think different about our privacy apple the company that made it possible for men to show their women their dicks from thousands of miles away is releasing an update that will allow them to hack into your phone without your consent to snoop through all your pictures just in case you're a pedophile or as matt gates put it i'm switching to samsung now let me be clear i'm against pedophilia that's why i joined cubanon but nosing through everybody's private photo stash is casting an awfully wide intrusive net it's like if the company that sold you a safe said oh and we're going to stop by sometimes when you're not home to make sure you're not keeping naked pictures of kids in it our phones should be like our wallets or purses private what about probable cause what about the fourth amendment this is the very definition of unreasonable search and seizure which can and will be abused to find evidence of other illegal stuff on our phones in my case drugs now again i think child pornography is bad and i don't care who knows it but it's also not a trump card you can pull out that makes all our other rights disappear thank you and i don't see a very strong fight brewing against this blatant constitutional breach and i think it's because we're so dependent on smartphones now that we will let them do anything to us apple should admit that the problem with their phones isn't just what people might store on them it's the phones themselves today's phones make people full stop and i know whenever someone starts in on how evil smartphones are there's always a pat answer coming back about how people have always freaked out about the latest technology corrupting young minds come on they said it about radio and the telephone and tv yeah it sounds like that argument might be right but it's not it's not none of you think about it for two seconds i don't remember lugging a tv under my cover so i could watch huckleberry hound until the screen asked me are you still watching i looked forward to seeing i dream of jeannie once a week but it didn't throw off my circadian rhythm i liked mikael's navy i wasn't addicted to it i didn't watch it when i drove radio to tv was a difference in degree smartphones are a difference in kind less like tv or radio more like a pacemaker you know something you can't live without no other device has ever commanded our constant attention the way the smartphone does of course when i was a teenager i i had a princess phone but i didn't stare at it eight hours a day [Applause] there was no hardcore pornography on my family's 24-inch xena television set sadly and we didn't have to worry that maybe my sister was on the landline with a strange man who was posing as another teenager but was really 50. a former vp at facebook said he felt tremendous guilt because the short-term dopamine driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works yet tv didn't do that psychology today says the average high school kid has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s and that's directly related to social media increasingly studies are linking phones to not just anxiety but depression bullying hate speech fake news sleep disturbance relationship problems and photographs of knees on the beach tv didn't do all that either and tv didn't turn people into shady needy passive aggressive mean and fake fake outraged fake brave fake pretty fake supportive phones make people fake their lives instead of living their lives it's more important to get a picture of you looking like you're having a good time than actually having a good time and the pathetic addiction to likes did i like my picture of lunch maybe it wasn't good enough does that mean i'm not good enough phones have ruined self-esteem comedy clubs concerts childhood attention span sleep cycles using toilet time to reflect and falling off cliffs oh and dating which has been reduced from a quest for true love to looking at a menu i think i'll have the kelly tonight phones make people bullies angrier more vitriolic more racist online than they would ever dream of being if they had to say those things to someone's face the phone made us passive-aggressive to our friends and hyper-aggressive to total strangers it has two settings i'll kill you or you're dead to me not that if you're dead to me was the message you wanted to send to someone you'd even bother sending it because even texting is too confrontational for most people now we don't engage with our friends when we disagree we just walk away don't like something delete it don't want to talk to someone don't reply just ghost them ghosting it's the electronic equivalent of going out for a pack of smokes and never coming back cell phones have obliterated courtesy the fundamental building block of developing any real relationship we all see it groups of friends out together in a car or eating in a restaurant and they're all staring down at their phones imagine how rude that would be if instead of a phone you brought a magazine to the table and read it during dinner with a friend many is the night i've wanted to say to someone can you just put the phone down for a minute after all we haven't seen each other in weeks and we're having sex you

Channel: Real Time with Bill Maher

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Keywords: Andrew Sullivan, blogger, The Weekly Dish, Substack, book, Out on a Limb, Selected Writing, 1989 – 2021, Jackie Calmes, Washington columnist, Los Angeles Times, author, Dissent, The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture of the Court, Max Rose, Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Defense for COVID-19, New York's 11th district, Congress from 2019-2021, veteran, U.S. war, Afghanistan, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Combat Infantry Badge

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Length: 8min 2sec (482 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 20 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/amiibler]

Bill does it all by himself.

[u/RandomName01]

Bill Maher doesn’t have any right to complain about other people being assholes

[u/Chrysalii]

Old rule: Fuck Bill Maher.

[u/Sonicbam17]

Don’t let this distract you from the fact he mocked Stan Lee right after he died, and I don’t think he ever apologized either.

[u/matteofox]

Bill occasionally will have a good point but then you get boomer shit like this

[u/Resurgemuss]

Smartphones have very good things of course, but also they are horrible for many other things especially if you have lived before smartphones and you know how many parts of social life were and how they have changed.