Podcast Episode Hack To The Future

Like many young individuals, Zach Latta went to a faculty that didn't educate any computer courses. But that didn’t stop him from studying everything he may about them and changing into a programmer at a young age. After shifting to San Francisco, Zach founded Hack Club, a nonprofit community of highschool coding clubs world wide, to assist other students discover the schooling and group that he wished he had as a teenager.

This week on our podcast, we discuss to Zach about the importance of student entry to an open internet, why studying to code can improve equity, and how school's on-line security and the legislation usually stand in the way in which. We’ll additionally discuss how laptop education will help create the subsequent technology of makers and builders that we need to resolve a few of society’s largest problems.

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On this episode, you’ll learn about:

Why faculties block some harmless instructional content material and coding resources, from widespread sites like Github to “view source” features on school-issued gadgetsHow locked down digital systems in schools cease young people from studying about coding and computers, and create equity issues for students who are already marginalizedHow coding and “hack” clubs can empower younger folks, assist them learn self-expression, and discover neighborhoodHow pervasive college surveillance undermines trust and limits people’s ability to train their rights when they are olderHow younger people’s curiosity for the way things work on-line has helped carry us a number of the know-how we love most

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

Music for how to repair the Internet was created for us by Reed Mathis and Nat Keefe of BeatMower.

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Transcript:

Zach: I grew up near Los Angeles, both my parents were social staff and growing up, I went to public schools that the majority colleges in America didn't educate any pc classes. And for me, as a young particular person, I simply felt like, oh my God, if only I could work out how these magical units work, this is where the secrets of the universe lie. Nevertheless it was all the time 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 used to be sixteen and i moved to San Francisco to develop into a programmer. And after working at a pair startups to get some money and put together some savings, I started Hack Club to try to create the form of place and community that I so desperately wished I had when I used to be a teenager.

Cindy: That is Zach Latta. He is the founding father of Hack Membership and he is our visitor at this time. Zach goes to inform us about how groups like Hack Membership are teaching kids easy methods to hack and in any other case be creators on-line and how that's one of the methods we can help shift them from being simply passive consumers 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 studying to code can increase fairness and what happens when a school's online security and the legislation get in the way in which of all that.

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

Danny: And I am Danny O'Brien, particular advisor to the EFF. Welcome to How to repair the Internet, a podcast of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where we carry you large concepts, options, and hope that we can repair the biggest problems we face on-line.

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

Zach: Properly, thanks so much for having me. I am so honored. Rising up as a teenager, I just cherished the EFF and every little thing the organization stood for. It's an actual honor to be with all of you right here in the present day.

Cindy: Oh, terrific.

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

Zach: We are a network of teenagers all across the world who love constructing things with computers and run communities to try and produce teenagers together, to make things with technology. And almost each month, we have a significant downside where a school district simply blocks Hack Club. And there is no such thing as a worse call to get from a Hack Club, they're saying, "All right, I got 20 individuals in the room, we're attempting to get started, hackclub.com is blocked, github.com is blocked, Stack Overflow is blocked, how can we presumably run our meeting from here?"

Because of this problem, type of in a bit of frustration. With some Hack Clubbers I wrote a letter to EFF support line, simply saying, "Hey, is there any manner that EFF is likely to be ready to assist us with this? Because this is starting to be a factor where it is not like one faculty has this problem, it is like we've got dozens of schools around America the place simply the whole lot's blocked."

Danny: Simply to be clear here, this isn't simply you being blocked, this is major informational assets, right?

Zach: Oh yeah. It is loopy. If you are a young person who needs to find out about computers and desires to discover ways to code, you kind of need the web to do that. And also you depend on websites like Google, like GitHub, like Stack Overflow, like GitLab. There's a whole ecosystem that each single professional developer relies on each single day and at a significant proportion of schools round America, all of these assets are simply blocked, together with hackclub.com.

We run a membership locally here in Vermont, where we check out all of our stuff earlier than we put it online and open source it. And I was talking with a Hack Clubber there the place actually every single website in addition to faculty classroom is blocked on their school computer. And this Hack Clubber is not from a household with means so the one pc that they've entry to at residence is their college issued Chromebook. And consequently, he is six weeks behind everyone else in this membership and still hasn't gotten previous the initial hurdle of constructing early web sites.

Danny: Clearly what you might be doing in Hack Club have to be extremely subversive to be blocked in this way. What are you doing? What are these kids learning or failing to learn because they cannot really access to the internet?

Zach: What Hack Club's all about is bringing teenagers collectively who love computers and need to learn how to make issues with computers. Whether or not it's constructing an internet site or making a video sport or possibly even beginning an area enterprise and most schools don't supply any curriculum or assist round that. What Hack Clubbers are doing is of their meetings, they're usually making an attempt to study HTML, CSS, JavaScript or later on, extra advanced languages like Rust or recently there's a big motion around Zig, which is a brand new standard language. And when you are trying to run the assembly and bring people to github.com, where we have quite a lot of our assets, when it's blocked, it's the assembly's dead on arrival. I do not suppose faculty directors are dangerous people. I come from a long line of teachers and I feel that people in schools are doing their finest but are most likely afraid around things like legal responsibility.

Cindy: Their incentive is simply to guantee that kids don't ever get to something that might possibly be problematic. They do not have an incentive to ensure children can really study a few of these skills. And so, when you outsource this to folks whose enterprise it is to dam, they're going to block versus having a thoughtful course of by which you figure out what do students actually have to learn? And I believe you are completely right, in terms of computer programming and understanding how computer systems work, all people learned this by going out onto the web and finding the places where other persons are sharing this and something like GitHub, an enormous proportion of what really runs the internet is there. It is just a little crazy

Danny: Once we teach folks to learn and write, we're not anticipating them to be English literature students or novelists. We're giving them the instruments to work in society. When we now have studying, writing and algorithms or no matter, it's in order that they will do what they wish to do in society and they can construct society with an understanding of the things round them.

Zach: Once you notice that the world around us is constructed by different human beings, you realize you might be a type of human beings. I feel that starting 10 years in the past, there was this massive shift in schooling that happened. And for some cause still isn't actually a part of the dialogue around what good classrooms or good studying environments appears like, which is that every single younger person on the planet started having these magical units in their pockets, which had all of human historical past and data on them. Modded minecraft servers This stuff are better than the Library of Alexandria. That is it. It doesn't get higher. And I feel that a lot of public schooling systems all over the world are designed to unravel access issues. How can we simply merely get entry to information in entrance of everybody and to them?: And we have built this incredible distribution mechanism. It is actually outstanding but I believe the brand new challenge of studying in the 21st century is one in every of motivation. How do we get folks to care? How do we get individuals to use this? And I believe that once we lock down digital systems round younger folks, we type of tell them, "Don't poke and prod, do not strive issues, don't exit of your method to go down a path that we have not pre-authorised for you." And I believe that that type of kills curiosity. It is really counterproductive.

Danny: How much do you consider it's because you are known as Hack Club? How a lot do you think is because individuals affiliate that with malicious hacking?

Zach: I believe it's perhaps a small factor. Although I believe Hack Club as an organization is a bit of subversive in nature. We work straight with teenagers. We function kind of outdoors of the system, in some regards. The schools that Hack Clubs are in, often the varsity loves Hack Club because it is teenagers at their school who're getting collectively in a means meaning that they're actually engaged in their studying. And we're certainly one of a whole lot of groups that run into these issues each single day. And I feel this idea of scholars' rights, significantly on the internet, because it is so new, it's so technical, just for some purpose isn't talked about in any respect, even though it impacts young individuals more than virtually every other determination made at their college.

Cindy: We have been talking lots about blocking access to data, blocking websites and issues like that however I feel that you've seen issues with the units themselves, have not you?

Zach: Yeah. More and more Hack Clubbers, the only system they've entry to either in meetings or at house is a school issued Chromebook. And one of the options on faculty issued Chromebooks is to disable right clicking and clicking inspect ingredient. And also you cannot learn to program websites without being in a position to do that. And this is such an actual drawback that we have had to build our own debugger to help with that.

Danny: Just to be clear here, if you say proper click on, that is the thing where you might have the second mouse button after which people always stumble on this by accident and surprise what the heck have I carried out? Because you click and then there's somewhat menu. It's for coders or for somebody who wants to sort 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 taking a look at here. And that doesn’t… children cannot try this on these lockdown computers?

Zach: Yeah. It is a gadget safety setting. You possibly can turn off inspecting element, which implies that young individuals in Hack Membership meetings who haven't got a faculty issued pc can view the supply code of any web site that they go to. And if you do not have the resources at dwelling to have one and also you solely the varsity issued pc, you simply can't.

Danny: Everyone in the early internet discovered how to construct the rest of the early web by view supply. There was a little bit pull down menu.

Cindy: Completely.

Danny: And if you saw a web page that you just favored, you possibly can look at the original HTML after which minimize and paste it and mess round with it. And you're saying that youngsters simply have to take what they've given now?

Zach: You good click on and it is not an choice.

Danny: Holy cow.

Cindy: And this is a setting. Chromebooks don't come like this essentially but they offer the directors the flexibility to lock kids out of this knowledge. It is just, it is onerous to think about the considering that leads you to resolve that we will deny children knowledge in school.

Danny: And simply me and Zach and Cindy and now are vibrating within the studio. You cannot actually see this. One of many issues so upsetting about that is that the setting, the mouse, the windowing atmosphere that you are using was particularly constructed to be an educational surroundings that you could possibly explore and learn. It is an absolute perversion of the very fundamental means these items have been developed and supposed to make use of. It is like in case you gave somebody a painting set but no paints.

Cindy: The equity issues here are simply large. As a result of we all know that one of the good issues is that we're now giving children devices that they will use to assist themselves be taught. However in the event that they're locked down gadgets and that's the rich youngsters have one other system that they'll use but the poor kids find yourself with only a lockdown gadget, a poor device for poor individuals really it sounds like.

Zach: While you look at the marketing for some of these college filter corporations, the advertising is like, we prevent student suicide. And it's, we stop school shootings. What a wierd connection to attract. After which the issues they do to be in a position to attract that connection will not be only do they filter what websites you're able to go to but they really scan each single email you send out of your college 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, whenever you go to a website that's blocked, not solely does it say, "This web site's blocked, you are not allowed to come back right here," nevertheless it truly says that there is a security subject along with your laptop and that the way in which repair it is to obtain this intermediate SSL certificate, install it on your pc, set as a trusted supply and what meaning is it allows the school to man within the middle your entire encrypted site visitors.

Danny: Right. That is like your undermining the security of that laptop. And I feel this is absolutely necessary to emphasise. One of many things that we all the time speak about at EFF is you cannot do censorship with out surveillance. You have got to be able to see what persons are looking at to block it. And what which means for these kind of systems is, as you say, simply to be clear, what that particular person is being asked to obtain there's the master key to all of their communications on that computer, from their monetary details to every part.

Cindy: Yes. And it is an issue that predates COVID but it actually received supercharged throughout COVID, this idea that constant surveillance is what you must tolerate if you are a pupil. And that's harmful first because that is dangerous for teenagers however it's also dangerous as a result of we're creating a technology of youngsters who assume that being watched on a regular basis is okay. It is a fundamental human proper. It's central to human dignity. And one of many issues that we've discovered is you cannot deny children utterly human dignity and then anticipate them to abruptly at age 18, be capable to train their full rights in a approach that will work. It would not work that way.

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 via a keener appreciation of our more and more technological world and portraying the complex humanity of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians.

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

Zach: Effectively, there's two issues I would like to contact on there. I think an idea that I'd love for us all to begin speaking about is this idea of digital civic responsibility. And I feel it is the identical factor where you not only obtain being a consumer however you give too. You make your individual websites, you modify the internet, you modify technology. You're not only a shopper, you are a creator too.

In terms of what Hack Clubbers feel about college surveillance. Hack Clubbers really feel like they live in an Orwellian surveillance state since you spend your time on networks which might be surveilled, where if you happen to try to poke prod, bad issues could occur. And I feel positively Hack Clubbers feel like they cannot interact with their college on issues like these because I believe numerous faculty directors usually are not technical sufficient to know what's going on. If you happen to flag the unsuitable thing, you can very simply end up going through disciplinary action or something like that. I had this happen when I was a teenager, I put in a VPN on my laptop computer, what I dropped at my faculty, I used to be the one person at my college that I knew on a laptop computer and I used to be pulled apart by the vice principal because they had been like, "Why are you hacking our school?"

Danny: And I feel it undermines belief. To begin with, you set the stakes. That the administration is variety of saying, "We don't really trust you so we're going to place this software program." But then when youngsters who are curious and involved in this look into it, they realize that they're also being lied to.

Zach: And I think it actually undermines these values that we discuss lots about, like curiosity, like tinkering, like making an attempt issues out, figuring out who you want to be via trying to make issues. When there is a consequence to these actions, which is the case when you have your internet activity filtered after which mechanically reported in some circumstances, it means that all of the sudden attempting to be taught there may very well be a consequence when you Google the wrong thing. And I feel that in a place the place we care lots about independence and where we care too much about helping folks grow to be their very own particular person brokers of change, I believe that our digital environments that we create for younger folks inside of schools, I feel type of does the alternative. It tells you, "No, you are a consumer, keep watching Netflix, do not mess along with your laptop."

Cindy: I feel this really hearkens again to the start of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where we had legislation enforcement coming in and doing raids on a whole lot of youngsters who have been poking around on the early web, attempting to determine how things work. This is really one of many founding stories of EFF. And the flip facet of it's some of those same children or youngsters who were associates with them, by the name of possibly Wozniak or different issues, they went on to develop a few of the tools and the issues that we love probably the most. We're not just doing something unfair to those youngsters, we could also be brief circuiting the subsequent generation of people who find themselves going to convey us a greater world.

Cindy: Let's discuss a few of Hack Membership's successes. And by the way in which, I just want to offer you extra love for reclaiming the time period hack for doing one thing good. This is being a hacker, once more, I am an old school internet individual, being a hacker was being any person who dug in deeply, tried to determine things out. And it might need been not the prettiest factor but really made issues work. And I think that one way or the other we've lost that sense of the phrase and it's turn out to be synonymous with evil. And so I really appreciate you reclaiming it and lifting it up but that's simply my little soapbox second. However let's hear some success tales. What's Hack Club doing for kids? What are you seeing?

Zach: Oh, it is unbelievable. I do not know. There's a Hack Clubbers who wrote a whole recreation engine in Rust. I was speaking with Hack Clubbers who built a whole clone of Minecraft in Rust where they made the OpenGL calls themselves. However the thing that I think is basically essential about Hack Club for people who are in it past simply the coding and beyond the socialization is I feel that for Hack Clubbers, coding is not just a approach to make video video games or make a personal webpage or I do not know, get a job in the future. It's a form of self expression. It's this is a spot the place I could be myself, the place I can get what is in my head out on paper. It is a factor that provides you energy and an company as a young particular person that you don't really discover at school and do not actually discover in other actions or around your life. And it's a spot the place it does not actually matter where you're from or what you seem like or who your mother and father are, how a lot cash you make. It's that is a spot the place people will deal with you want a real person with real respect. And I do know for me, when I was a younger particular person, I used to be actually desperate for that.

Danny: As you talked about this, I was considering concerning the early days of the web and the web. And that i suddenly thought to myself, it isn't simply Hack Club, it isn't simply these places the place children gather, I think a huge chunk of the constructive sides of the internet have been built by youngsters or constructed by teenagers. I consider Aaron Swartz, who very close to EFF. Me and Cindy knew him properly.

Zach: Wow. He is a private hero of mine

Danny: Right. And after we first met Aaron, he was hacking on the basic code that was building the internet with Tim Berners-Lee at, I believe he should have been 14. Heaps of people begin out at that age. And the other thing is and I believe this goes to the guts of what we try and discuss on this show is you are modeling the constructive future of the internet. And it's driven by individuals wanting to construct that, wanting to build that for themselves. Do the kids you talk to, do they suppose about this more extensively?

Zach: I believe coding is the glue. It is the factor that brings everyone collectively however the magic is in all the why questions. As a result of Hack Club's an area the place folks ask questions like, who am I? Who do I wish to be? What is that this world I dwell in? What is my relationship with it? And I think that we now have this idea of hacker buddies where if I feel if Hack Club does one thing, we want to attempt to assist younger people find other hacker friends because when you have got another person like you, that shares your curiosity at a very deep degree, it implies that if you explore those questions, you can go a lot deeper and you're feeling heard in a means that you just may not if you do not have friends that are as into a few of these things as you.

Cindy: Hack Club's not the just one. There are programs like this all around the globe which can be actually particularly aimed toward reaching communities who mainly weren't the main target of form of the first technology of hacker children. For those who'd discuss that too, I might adore it.

Zach: For me growing up and I think this is built into Hack Club's DNA, I undoubtedly felt like a toddler of the world or a child of the internet because the folks I used to be having so many of those formative conversations with on-line have been from all over the world from all backgrounds. And I think that that's simply so incredibly necessary.

One of my favourite things about Hack Membership is since we do not this design a playbook that then everybody runs, each Hack Club at every college is different. And because of this, once you go to a Hack Membership in Kerala India, it is dramatically different than a Hack Club in America. It's completely different. It makes more sense for native context.

And as a result, if you walk into some of these clubs from around the world, the native leaders have actually requested, "What makes the most sense for me? What makes probably the most sense for different folks like me?" And I feel that, notably in areas where individuals really feel marginalized or they do not see a house for themselves or they haven't got role fashions in the same way that some more conventional of us might need, my hope is that with Hack Membership, that they'll construct the home that they've all the time been searching for. And I think that the internet permits young people to try this in a approach that just wasn't possible before.

Danny: This is such a cliche, but this is definitely the next era. This is the future. Do you might have any predictions about the way forward for the internet? What are the issues that they are constructing that are missing in the existing system?

Zach: We face some of the biggest challenges over the subsequent 50 years that humanity's ever needed to reckon with. And I believe that we need a era of young people who not solely have real exhausting skills, they can truly do something from a builder perspective round these huge challenges but they also have the fitting mindset and community to assume slightly bit in a different way.

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

They type of see technology not as an finish in itself however as a tool for each single factor needed to build amazing communities on this new world that we dwell in.

Cindy: Such a very good imaginative and prescient. Let's bounce to that future. What does it seem like if we get this right? If we unleash all the Hack Clubbers and the opposite children who're utilizing know-how and envisioning technologies to construct a better world than the one we now have now. Take us to that world. What does it appear to be?

Zach: I do not know if this is too large of an concept however I want to stay in a world the place there is a hacker president. However in more concrete terms, I need all the innovative, exciting stuff to be open supply as a result of it implies that abruptly the people who can have interaction with it, is not everyone who can afford to buy a license to their firm however it's each single individual that has technical knowledge in your complete world and web entry. I wish to dwell in a world the place the constraints of location, of locale are smaller than ever before.

Cindy: And what I actually love about this imaginative and prescient is that it really is a few motion. I feel one of the things that distresses me in regards to the tales popping out of the early web is all of them appear to one guy who did one factor. And honestly, they're virtually all guys and guys of a certain color. And I think that this way of storytelling, I'm undecided it was truly all that true for those of us who lived by way of it however what I hear you is actually, really doubling down on this idea that it takes a motion, that people transfer together and that this type of single person narrative just isn't actually the narrative of good change and that you are working to attempt to construct communities and networks so that we get past that.

Zach: And I believe that one thing that basically helps with that is the open source motion and the open supply group as a result of it signifies that in case you are coding on real initiatives, the connection between you and the 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 individual. They had been built by 2,000 people. And also you see that comparable issues with huge projects, like Firefox, massive tasks like Rust, these are issues that take tribes.

Cindy: Yeah. And let's just double down, we received to get those obstacles out of the way in which. Youngsters want to be able to entry all the knowledge. They need to have the ability to right click on their Chromebooks and view supply and all of these things. And the position of that, which sounds like funny little geeky things, it's central to how we get from here to there.

Danny: Nicely, thank you so much, Zach. I look forward to not solely seeing what it's important to come up with sooner or later however seeing the following 20 years of what these youngsters produce.

Zach: Thank you so much for having me here. It is such an honor to be able to join you on this dialog. It is such an honor for Hack Clubbers to have their story and their struggles be part of the conversation and for the work you are doing. Thank you, thanks, thank you, thank you, thanks.

Cindy: It goes both methods, Zach. You might be raising the following era of EFF members, probably EFF staffers and perhaps congressional and administrative staffers who have this of their bones. And that is the world. Simply understanding how know-how works isn't sufficient. And I think that is actually clear from what you are doing is you're building networks and you are constructing moral and responsible frameworks for the way do you be somebody who understands about tech however is using it for good?

Cindy: Zach, thanks a lot. This has been so fun speaking to you and so inspiring. I agree, we started off and we were talking about the issues that you're having and they're tremendously essential. And of course that is the place EFF's rubber meets the street is making an attempt to get these obstacles out of the way in which. But we ended in such a cheerful place by way of this future. So thanks.

Cindy: I so respect hearing about optimistic, young folks finding, utilizing and building the tools to make issues higher and the role that the internet is taking part in in each helping them join, and serving to them really build this right into a motion that goes to construct the tools which might be going to make a better internet sooner or later.

Danny: So much of this discuss of the surveillance and the censorship of children is wrapped this idea of retaining them secure. And then Zach who's caught in the center. He goes to the websites of those makers of filter expertise the place they're actually claiming to be preventing faculty shootings and but all of us need youngsters to be protected but I do question whether this is really safety when Zack talks to the actual Hack Clubbers and they are saying that they really feel like they're in an Orwellian surveillance state, that's not safety.

Cindy: No, no. And I believe school directors, it is just clear that they're outgunned here and we'd like to essentially help them in recognizing what kids really have to grow. I additionally actually appreciated him speaking about coding as a form of self expression. Clearly that's near and dear to my coronary heart as EFF started with the concept code is speech but additionally that this self expression isn't just in a constitutional sense. It's about a spot the place I will be myself, the place I can actually be the true me and all of that coming out of the concept individuals are studying the best way to code, this as a technique of self expression it's simply heartening.

Danny: You teach kids how to precise themselves, whether it is code and speaking up and then they get to be a part of that debate. And I believe they're an important a part of that debate.

Cindy: One of the things that I really liked about the way Zach talked in regards to the group he is building is it's being constructed by teenagers for teenagers, maybe for the remainder of us too. However recognizing that this community must be designing the technologies and developing the applied sciences that this community needs. That where it must be centered. It jogs my memory of the conversation 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 area or somewhere around the world. This group empowerment works not solely in geography but additionally in the distinction between being a kid and being an grownup.

Cindy: Nicely, thanks to our visitor, Zach Latta, for sharing his optimism and the work that he is doing. If you'd like to start out a Hack Club or donate to help assist them, they are at hackclub.com. There are comparable organizations all throughout the nation and all across the world. But supporting this work, I believe is tremendously vital to build a future web that all of us want to reside in.

Danny: Thanks again, for joining us. When you've got any suggestions on this episode, do e mail us at [email protected]. We learn every e mail and we be taught from all your feedback. In case you do like what you hear, comply with us in your favorite podcast participant. We've bought tons extra episodes in store this season. Nat Keefe and Reed Mathis at Beat Mower made the music for this podcast with extra music and sounds used beneath the artistic commons license from CCMixter. You'll find the credit for each of the musicians and hyperlinks to the music in our episode notes. How to fix the Web is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's program in the public understanding of science and know-how. I am Danny O'Brien.

Music for a way to fix the Internet was created for us by Reed Mathis and Nat Keefe of BeatMower. This podcast is licensed Artistic Commons Attribution 4.0 International, and includes music licensed Artistic Commons Attribution 3.Zero Unported by their creators. You'll 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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