Podcast Episode Hack To The Future Future

Like many younger folks, Zach Latta went to a faculty that didn't train any pc classes. However that didn’t stop him from learning everything he could about them and turning into a programmer at a younger age. After shifting to San Francisco, Zach based Hack Membership, a nonprofit network of highschool coding clubs around the world, to help other college students discover the training and group that he wished he had as a teenager.

This week on our podcast, we talk to Zach about the significance of student access to an open internet, why learning to code can improve equity, and how faculty's on-line security and the legislation usually stand in the way in which. We’ll also focus on how computer schooling may help create the following technology of makers and builders that we'd like to solve some of society’s biggest problems.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about:

Why faculties block some harmless educational content material and coding assets, from frequent websites like Github to “view source” capabilities on school-issued gadgetsHow locked down digital techniques in schools cease younger individuals from studying about coding and computers, and create equity points for college students who are already marginalizedHow coding and “hack” clubs can empower younger folks, help them be taught self-expression, and find neighborhoodHow pervasive college surveillance undermines trust and limits people’s capacity to exercise their rights when they're olderHow young people’s curiosity for the way issues work on-line has helped convey us among the technology we love most

Zach Latta is the government director of Hack Membership, a national nonprofit connecting over 14,000 young folks to help them create and participate in coding clubs, hackathons, and workshops around the globe. He is a Forbes 30 Below 30 recipient and a Thiel Fellow.

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Transcript:

Zach: I grew up near Los Angeles, each my mother and father had been social employees and rising up, I went to public colleges that almost all colleges in America did not educate any pc classes. And for me, as a young particular person, I simply felt like, oh my God, if solely I could work out how these magical gadgets work, that is the place the secrets and techniques of the universe lie. However it was at all times a solitary exercise for me.

As a teenager I was very lonely and that culminated for me, I ended up dropping out of high school after my freshman year when I was sixteen and that i moved to San Francisco to change into a programmer. And after working at a pair startups to get some cash and put collectively some savings, I started Hack Club to attempt to create the sort of place and neighborhood that I so desperately wished I had when I was a teenager.

Cindy: That is Zach Latta. He's the founding father of Hack Club and he is our visitor as we speak. Zach goes to inform us about how groups like Hack Club are teaching children how to hack and in any other case be creators on-line and how that's one of many methods we can help shift them from being simply passive shoppers of the digital world to truly charting their very own futures.

Danny: We're going to speak to Zach about student rights to an open internet, why learning to code can improve equity and what occurs when a faculty's on-line security and the legislation get in the way of all that. No pesos

Cindy: I am Cindy Cohn, EFF's government director.

Danny: And I'm Danny O'Brien, particular advisor to the EFF. Welcome to How to repair the Internet, a podcast of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the place we deliver you large ideas, options, and hope that we will fix the biggest problems we face online.

Cindy: Zach, thanks so much for becoming a member of us.

Zach: Well, thanks a lot for having me. I'm so honored. Growing up as a teenager, I just beloved the EFF and all the pieces the group stood for. It's an actual honor to be with all of you here at the moment.

Cindy: Oh, terrific.

You reached out to EFF for help and that's how we ended up really assembly you. Can you talk to us about what led you to do this?

Zach: We're a network of teenagers all internationally who love constructing things with computer systems and run communities to try and produce teenagers together, to make issues with know-how. And almost each month, we have a major downside the place a school district just blocks Hack Membership. And there isn't any worse call to get from a Hack Membership, they're saying, "All right, I received 20 people in the room, we're trying to get started, hackclub.com is blocked, github.com is blocked, Stack Overflow is blocked, how can we possibly run our assembly from right here?"

Because of this downside, form of in a bit of frustration. With some Hack Clubbers I wrote a letter to EFF assist line, simply saying, "Hey, is there any way that EFF is likely to be able to help us with this? Because this is starting to be a thing where it's not like one faculty has this downside, it's like we have now dozens of colleges around America where just every little thing's blocked."

Danny: Just to be clear right here, this isn't simply you being blocked, that is major informational sources, proper?

Zach: Oh yeah. It's loopy. If you are a young person who needs to learn about computers and wants to discover ways to code, you type of want the web to do this. And you rely on websites like Google, like GitHub, like Stack Overflow, like GitLab. There's a whole ecosystem that every single professional developer relies on every single day and at a significant share of schools round America, all of those sources are just blocked, including hackclub.com.

We run a membership regionally here in Vermont, the place we check out all of our stuff before we put it on-line and open supply it. And I was talking with a Hack Clubber there the place literally every single website moreover faculty classroom is blocked on their college computer. And this Hack Clubber is not from a household with means so the one pc that they've entry to at house is their school issued Chromebook. And as a result, he's six weeks behind everybody else in this membership and still hasn't gotten previous the preliminary hurdle of building early websites.

Danny: Obviously what you are doing in Hack Membership have to be extremely subversive to be blocked in this fashion. What are you doing? What are these youngsters studying or failing to learn because they can not really entry to the web?

Zach: What Hack Club's all about is bringing teenagers collectively who love computers and wish to learn how to make issues with computers. Whether it's constructing an internet site or making a video sport or maybe even starting a neighborhood enterprise and most schools don't offer any curriculum or help around that. What Hack Clubbers are doing is in their conferences, they're often making an attempt to study HTML, CSS, JavaScript or later on, extra advanced languages like Rust or not too long ago there's a giant motion round Zig, which is a new widespread language. And when you're attempting to run the meeting and produce folks to github.com, where we have a lot of our resources, when it's blocked, it's the assembly's useless on arrival. I don't suppose school administrators are dangerous folks. I come from a long line of teachers and I think that folks in colleges are doing their best however are most likely afraid round things like legal responsibility.

Cindy: Their incentive is simply to make sure that youngsters do not ever get to something that might probably be problematic. They do not have an incentive to ensure children can really learn some of these expertise. And so, while you outsource this to people whose business it's to block, they're going to dam versus having a considerate course of by which you figure out what do students really have to be taught? And I think you are totally proper, on the subject of pc programming and understanding how computers work, everybody discovered this by going out onto the internet and discovering the places the place different individuals are sharing this and something like GitHub, an enormous percentage of what truly runs the internet is there. It is just a little crazy

Danny: When we teach people to learn and write, we're not expecting them to be English literature students or novelists. We're giving them the tools to work in society. When we've reading, writing and algorithms or no matter, it's so that they will do what they wish to do in society and they can construct society with an understanding of the things around them.

Zach: Whenever you understand that the world round us is built by other human beings, you understand you could be a kind of human beings. I believe that beginning 10 years ago, there was this massive shift in education that occurred. And for some reason nonetheless isn't actually a part of the dialogue around what good classrooms or good studying environments seems like, which is that each single young particular person on the planet started having these magical gadgets of their pockets, which had all of human historical past and data on them. This stuff are better than the Library of Alexandria. That is it. It doesn't get better. And I think that so much of public education programs all over the world are designed to solve entry problems. How will we simply merely get entry to knowledge in front of everyone and to them?: And we have built this incredible distribution mechanism. It's really exceptional but I believe the new problem of learning within the 21st century is certainly one of motivation. How can we get individuals to care? How do we get individuals to make use of this? And I believe that after we lock down digital programs round younger individuals, we type of tell them, "Don't poke and prod, do not try issues, don't go out of your solution to go down a path that we haven't pre-accredited for you." And I feel that that sort of kills curiosity. It is really counterproductive.

Danny: How a lot do you think of it is because you are called Hack Membership? How much do you think is because people associate that with malicious hacking?

Zach: I believe it is maybe a small component. Regardless that I believe Hack Club as a corporation is somewhat subversive in nature. We work straight with teenagers. We operate sort of outdoors of the system, in some regards. The faculties that Hack Clubs are in, usually the varsity loves Hack Membership because it is teenagers at their faculty who are getting collectively in a method meaning that they're really engaged of their studying. And we're one in all tons of of groups that run into these problems each single day. And I think this concept of scholars' rights, notably on the web, because it is so new, it's so technical, just for some cause isn't talked about in any respect, despite the fact that it affects younger individuals greater than almost any other choice made at their faculty.

Cindy: We've been talking quite a bit about blocking access to data, blocking websites and issues like that however I believe that you've got seen problems with the gadgets themselves, have not you?

Zach: Yeah. Increasingly Hack Clubbers, the one machine they have access to either in meetings or at home is a college issued Chromebook. And one of the options on college issued Chromebooks is to disable proper clicking and clicking examine component. And also you cannot learn how to program web sites with out being able to try this. And that is such a real drawback that we have had to build our personal debugger to help with that.

Danny: Simply to be clear right here, once you say proper click, that is the thing the place you've the second mouse button after which individuals all the time stumble on this by accident and wonder what the heck have I accomplished? Since you click on and then there's just a little menu. It is for coders or for somebody who desires to form of go a bit deeper or after all save an image. It's the kind of metaphor for, okay, let's go somewhat bit deeper into what we're looking at here. And that doesn’t… kids cannot do this on these lockdown computer systems?

Zach: Yeah. It is a device security setting. You may turn off inspecting ingredient, which implies that younger individuals in Hack Club conferences who haven't got a college issued computer can view the source code of any webpage that they go to. And if you don't have the sources at home to have one and also you solely the varsity issued pc, you simply can't.

Danny: Everybody within the early net learned how to build the rest of the early net by view source. There was a little bit pull down menu.

Cindy: Absolutely.

Danny: And in the event you noticed a web page that you simply favored, you could have a look at the original HTML after which minimize and paste it and mess round with it. And you are saying that children just need to take what they've given now?

Zach: You good click and it's not an possibility.

Danny: Holy cow.

Cindy: And it is a setting. Chromebooks don't come like this essentially however they offer the directors the power to lock kids out of this knowledge. It's just, it's exhausting to imagine the pondering that leads you to decide that we're going to deny youngsters knowledge at school.

Danny: And just me and Zach and Cindy and now are vibrating within the studio. You can't actually see this. One of many things so upsetting about that is that the surroundings, the mouse, the windowing surroundings that you're utilizing was specifically built to be an educational environment that you could explore and study. It is an absolute perversion of the very elementary method this stuff were developed and meant to make use of. It is like if you happen to gave somebody a painting set however no paints.

Cindy: The fairness issues listed here are simply super. Because we know that one in every of the good things is that we're now giving kids gadgets that they'll use to help themselves study. However if they're locked down devices and that is the rich children have one other machine that they will use but the poor kids find yourself with only a lockdown gadget, a poor gadget for poor people actually it appears like.

Zach: If you look on the advertising and marketing for some of these school filter corporations, the advertising and marketing is like, we forestall student suicide. And it's, we prevent college shootings. What a strange connection to draw. After which the issues they do to be in a position to draw that connection isn't only do they filter what websites you are capable of go to but they actually scan every single email you send out of your school account, every single IM that you just send out of your college account, they scan the stuff you do on websites. For this one district that we're in, in Georgia, if you go to a web site that's blocked, not only does it say, "This webpage's blocked, you're not allowed to return right here," nevertheless it truly says that there is a safety concern along with your pc and that the way repair it's to obtain this intermediate SSL certificate, set up it in your laptop, set as a trusted supply and what which means is it permits the varsity to man in the middle your entire encrypted site visitors.

Danny: Right. That is like your undermining the security of that laptop. And I believe this is absolutely important to emphasise. One of the things that we all the time speak about at EFF is you can't do censorship without surveillance. You will have to be able to see what people are looking at to block it. And what meaning for these type of techniques is, as you say, simply to be clear, what that individual is being asked to download there's the master key to all of their communications on that computer, from their financial particulars to the whole lot.

Cindy: Sure. And it is a problem that predates COVID nevertheless it really received supercharged throughout COVID, this concept that fixed surveillance is what you have to tolerate if you're a scholar. And that is harmful first because that's dangerous for teenagers but it's also harmful because we're making a era of kids who assume that being watched on a regular basis is okay. It is a elementary human right. It is central to human dignity. And one of many issues that we've realized is you can't deny kids completely human dignity after which count on them to all of a sudden at age 18, be capable of train their full rights in a means that can work. It doesn't work that means.

Danny: “How to fix the Internet” is supported by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Program in Public Understanding of Science. Enriching people’s lives by a keener appreciation of our increasingly technological world and portraying the complicated humanity of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians.

How do the kids themselves feel about this? What do you get from them?

Zach: Properly, there's two things I would love to contact on there. I feel an concept that I'd love for us all to start out speaking about is this idea of digital civic duty. And I feel it is the identical thing where you not solely receive being a shopper but you give too. You make your individual web sites, you modify the internet, you modify know-how. You are not just a client, you are a creator too.

When it comes to what Hack Clubbers really feel about faculty surveillance. Hack Clubbers really feel like they reside in an Orwellian surveillance state since you spend your time on networks which are surveilled, the place if you try to poke prod, bad things may happen. And I feel positively Hack Clubbers really feel like they can't interact with their faculty on issues like these because I think lots of faculty administrators usually are not technical enough to grasp what's happening. If you happen to flag the improper thing, you may very easily end up facing disciplinary motion or one thing like that. I had this occur when I was a teenager, I installed a VPN on my laptop computer, what I dropped at my college, I was the one individual at my school that I knew on a laptop computer and I was pulled apart by the vice principal because they had been like, "Why are you hacking our college?"

Danny: And I feel it undermines trust. Initially, you set the stakes. That the administration is form of claiming, "We do not actually trust you so we're going to place this software." But then when children who're curious and involved in this look into it, they realize that they are also being lied to.

Zach: And I think it really undermines these values that we discuss a lot about, like curiosity, like tinkering, like trying issues out, figuring out who you need to be via making an attempt to make issues. When there is a consequence to these actions, which is the case when you might have your net exercise filtered after which automatically reported in some circumstances, it signifies that immediately trying to be taught there may very well be a consequence should you Google the incorrect thing. And I feel that in a spot where we care rather a lot about independence and the place we care quite a bit about serving to folks develop into their own individual agents of change, I believe that our digital environments that we create for younger people inside of faculties, I believe type of does the alternative. It tells you, "No, you are a client, keep watching Netflix, don't mess along with your computer."

Cindy: I feel this really hearkens back to the start of the Digital Frontier Basis, where we had regulation enforcement coming in and doing raids on loads of kids who have been poking around on the early web, making an attempt to determine how things work. This is basically one of the founding tales of EFF. And the flip aspect of it's a few of those same kids or kids who were associates with them, by the identify of perhaps Wozniak or other things, they went on to develop among the tools and the issues that we love the most. We're not just doing one thing unfair to those children, we may be short circuiting the following generation of people who are going to carry us a better world.

Cindy: Let's talk about some of Hack Club's successes. And by the way, I simply wish to offer you additional love for reclaiming the term hack for doing one thing good. This is being a hacker, once more, I'm an old-fashioned web person, being a hacker was being someone who dug in deeply, tried to determine things out. And it might have been not the prettiest thing but actually made things work. And I think that by some means we've misplaced that sense of the word and it is change into synonymous with evil. And so I actually respect you reclaiming it and lifting it up however that's just my little soapbox moment. But let's hear some success tales. What is Hack Membership doing for teenagers? What are you seeing?

Zach: Oh, it is unimaginable. I do not know. There's a Hack Clubbers who wrote a whole game engine in Rust. I was talking with Hack Clubbers who constructed a complete clone of Minecraft in Rust where they made the OpenGL calls themselves. But the thing that I think is really necessary about Hack Club for people who are in it beyond simply the coding and beyond the socialization is I believe that for Hack Clubbers, coding is not only a option to make video games or make a personal webpage or I don't know, get a job sooner or later. It is a form of self expression. It is that is a place the place I could be myself, where I can get what's in my head out on paper. It is a factor that offers you power and an company as a young individual that you don't really find at school and do not actually discover in different activities or around your life. And it's a place where it does not actually matter where you are from or what you appear to be or who your mother and father are, how a lot cash you make. It is that is a spot where people will deal with you want an actual person with real respect. And I know for me, when I was a young individual, I used to be really desperate for that.

Danny: As you talked about this, I was thinking in regards to the early days of the online and the web. And i abruptly thought to myself, it is not just Hack Club, it isn't simply these locations the place youngsters gather, I believe an enormous chunk of the constructive sides of the web were built by children or built by teenagers. I consider Aaron Swartz, who very close to EFF. Me and Cindy knew him well.

Zach: Wow. He is a personal hero of mine

Danny: Proper. And once we first met Aaron, he was hacking on the elemental code that was building the internet with Tim Berners-Lee at, I believe he will need to have been 14. Lots of individuals begin out at that age. And the opposite thing is and I think this goes to the heart of what we try and discuss on this present is you're modeling the optimistic future of the web. And it's driven by people wanting to build that, wanting to build that for themselves. Do the kids you discuss to, do they suppose about this more widely?

Zach: I believe coding is the glue. It's the thing that brings everybody collectively however the magic is in all the why questions. As a result of Hack Membership's an area the place individuals ask questions like, who am I? Who do I need to be? What is this world I dwell in? What is my relationship with it? And I think that we have this idea of hacker mates where if I feel if Hack Club does one thing, we need to try to help younger people discover other hacker associates as a result of when you've another person such as you, that shares your interest at a very deep degree, it implies that while you discover these questions, you may go a lot deeper and you're feeling heard in a approach that you simply may not if you do not have friends which are as into a few of these items as you.

Cindy: Hack Club's not the just one. There are applications like this all world wide which might be really particularly aimed toward reaching communities who basically weren't the focus of type of the first technology of hacker children. If you happen to'd talk about that too, I'd love it.

Zach: For me rising up and I believe that is built into Hack Club's DNA, I positively felt like a baby of the world or a toddler of the web because the folks I was having so many of these formative conversations with on-line have been from all over the world from all backgrounds. And I believe that that is simply so incredibly necessary.

Certainly one of my favorite issues about Hack Club is since we do not this design a playbook that then everybody runs, each Hack Club at every faculty is totally different. And in consequence, once you go to a Hack Membership in Kerala India, it's dramatically completely different than a Hack Membership in America. It is different. It makes extra sense for local context.

And because of this, when you stroll into a few of these clubs from world wide, the native leaders have really asked, "What makes essentially the most sense for me? What makes the most sense for other folks like me?" And I believe that, notably in areas the place people really feel marginalized or they don't see a house for themselves or they haven't got role fashions in the same means that some extra conventional people might have, my hope is that with Hack Club, that they will construct the home that they've at all times been looking for. And I believe that the internet allows young folks to try this in a manner that simply wasn't possible earlier than.

Danny: This is such a cliche, however this is actually the following technology. That is the long run. Do you could have any predictions about the future of the web? What are the issues that they're building which are lacking in the present system?

Zach: We face a few of the largest challenges over the next 50 years that humanity's ever needed to reckon with. And I feel that we want a generation of young individuals who not only have actual laborious expertise, they can truly do one thing from a builder perspective around these large challenges however they also have the precise mindset and community to think just a little bit otherwise.

The mindset is that if there's an issue, what does it take to fix it? It is very actionable reasonably than really feel, we're born with problems and we should deal with these issues. There's nothing that we will do about it. It's a very empowered mindset.

They kind of see technology not as an end in itself however as a device for each single thing needed to construct wonderful communities on this new world that we reside in.

Cindy: Such a very good vision. Let's leap to that future. What does it appear to be if we get this right? If we unleash all the Hack Clubbers and the opposite youngsters who are using expertise and envisioning technologies to build a better world than the one we now have now. Take us to that world. What does it look like?

Zach: I don't know if this is too big of an concept however I want to live in a world the place there is a hacker president. But in more concrete phrases, I want all the innovative, exciting stuff to be open supply as a result of it signifies that all of the sudden the individuals who can engage with it, is not everybody who can afford to purchase a license to their company but it is every single individual that has technical knowledge in all the world and internet entry. I want to live in a world where the constraints of location, of locale are smaller than ever before.

Cindy: And what I really love about this vision is that it actually is about a motion. I feel one of the things that distresses me about the stories popping out of the early web is they all appear to 1 man who did one factor. And honestly, they're nearly all guys and guys of a sure shade. And I feel that this fashion of storytelling, I'm unsure it was truly all that true for those of us who lived by it however what I hear you is admittedly, really doubling down on this idea that it takes a movement, that folks move together and that this type of single individual narrative just isn't really the narrative of good change and that you are working to try to build communities and networks so that we get previous that.

Zach: And I believe that one factor that really helps with that's the open supply motion and the open source neighborhood as a result of it signifies that if you are coding on real initiatives, the connection between you and the particular person that wrote that line of code is nearer than ever. And you see, wow, initiatives like Ruby on Rails, they weren't built by one person. They have been constructed by 2,000 folks. And also you see that related issues with big initiatives, like Firefox, huge projects like Rust, these are issues that take tribes.

Cindy: Yeah. And let's just double down, we received to get these obstacles out of the way in which. Kids need to be able to entry all the information. They need to be able to proper click on their Chromebooks and look at supply and all of these items. And the position of that, which appears like humorous little geeky issues, it is central to how we get from here to there.

Danny: Well, thank you so much, Zach. I sit up for not only seeing what you have to provide you with sooner or later but seeing the next 20 years of what these youngsters produce.

Zach: Thanks a lot for having me here. It is such an honor to be in a position to hitch you on this dialog. It is such an honor for Hack Clubbers to have their story and their struggles be a part of the dialog and for the work you are doing. Thanks, thank you, thanks, thanks, thanks.

Cindy: It goes each ways, Zach. You're elevating the following generation of EFF members, in all probability EFF staffers and possibly congressional and administrative staffers who have this of their bones. And that's the world. Just understanding how technology works is not enough. And I think that is really clear from what you're doing is you are building networks and you're constructing ethical and accountable frameworks for a way do you be any person who understands about tech but is using it for good?

Cindy: Zach, thank you so much. This has been so enjoyable talking to you and so inspiring. I agree, we started off and we were speaking about the issues that you are having and they're tremendously necessary. And of course that is the place EFF's rubber meets the street is attempting to get these obstacles out of the way in which. However we ended in such a happy place when it comes to this future. So thanks.

Cindy: I so recognize listening to about optimistic, young people finding, using and constructing the instruments to make things better and the position that the internet is enjoying in both serving to them connect, and serving to them really build this right into a motion that is going to build the tools which might be going to make a greater web sooner or later.

Danny: So much of this discuss of the surveillance and the censorship of children is wrapped this idea of preserving them protected. And then Zach who's caught within the middle. He goes to the web sites of those makers of filter know-how where they're literally claiming to be preventing faculty shootings and yet all of us need youngsters to be safe but I do query whether or not this is de facto safety when Zack talks to the actual Hack Clubbers and they say that they feel like they're in an Orwellian surveillance state, that is not safety.

Cindy: No, no. And I believe faculty directors, it is just clear that they are outgunned right here and we need to really support them in recognizing what youngsters really need to grow. I also actually appreciated him speaking about coding as a form of self expression. Obviously that's near and pricey to my heart as EFF started with the concept that code is speech but additionally that this self expression is not simply in a constitutional sense. It's about a spot where I may be myself, where I can actually be the actual me and all of that coming out of the idea that people are studying how to code, this as a means of self expression it's just heartening.

Danny: You train kids how to precise themselves, whether or not it is code and talking up after which they get to be part of that debate. And I think they're an important a part of that debate.

Cindy: One of many issues that I actually beloved about the way Zach talked about the group he's constructing is it's being constructed by teenagers for teenagers, perhaps for the remainder of us too. However recognizing that this community needs to be designing the applied sciences and growing the technologies that this group needs. That where it needs to be centered. It reminds me of the dialog we had with Matt Mitchell, the place he talked about communities needing to build the instruments that they want, whether or not they're in, the place he was in Harlem or in a rural space or someplace around the world. This community empowerment works not only in geography but in addition within the distinction between being a kid and being an grownup.

Cindy: Well, because of our visitor, Zach Latta, for sharing his optimism and the work that he is doing. If you'd like to begin a Hack Membership or donate to help assist them, they're at hackclub.com. There are similar organizations all across the country and all the world over. But supporting this work, I feel is tremendously vital to build a future web that all of us need to stay in. No pesos

Danny: Thanks once more, for becoming a member of us. You probably have any suggestions on this episode, do e mail us at [email protected]. We read each email and we study from your entire comments. In the event you do like what you hear, follow us on your favourite podcast player. We have acquired heaps extra episodes in store this season. Nat Keefe and Reed Mathis at Beat Mower made the music for this podcast with further music and sounds used below the artistic commons license from CCMixter. You could find the credit for each of the musicians and hyperlinks to the music in our episode notes. How to repair the Web is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Basis's program in the general public understanding of science and expertise. I'm Danny O'Brien.

Music for the way to repair the Internet was created for us by Reed Mathis and Nat Keefe of BeatMower. This podcast is licensed Artistic Commons Attribution 4.Zero International, and contains music licensed Inventive Commons Attribution 3.Zero Unported by their creators. You could find their names and hyperlinks to their music in our episode notes, or on our webpage at eff.org/podcast. I’m Danny O’Brien.

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