Podcast: A Libertarian Socialist Response to the Enclosure of the Internet (and Digital Technology in General)
On this episode of Chaos and Conviviality, Dip and Scooter discuss the re-emerging wave of “bad internet bills” across the United States and the world. Dip explores what organizing against these restrictive internet policies might look like.
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See time stamps below:
00:00: Introduction to Bad Internet Bills
25:50: The need for popular power in fighting these bills
30:00: Hot Take: Concern around social media addiction is a moral panic
43:15: Technology being used to manipulate genuine social grievances is not new
54:05: More positive ways to relate to tech
1:18:53: With popular power, what could a strategy to push bad on these bills look like?
1:23:00: The importance of genuine accountability in building popular power
This conversation is adapted from an essay linked here.
Highlighted show notes (for full references/links, see the essay):
