Podcast Episode Hack To The Future

Like many young individuals, Zach Latta went to a college that did not educate any computer classes. However that didn’t stop him from studying the whole lot he may about them and becoming a programmer at a younger age. After shifting to San Francisco, Zach based Hack Club, a nonprofit community of highschool coding clubs world wide, to help different college students find the education and community that he wished he had as a teenager.

This week on our podcast, we speak to Zach in regards to the significance of pupil entry to an open internet, why studying to code can increase equity, and how faculty's online safety and the law usually stand in the way in which. We’ll additionally talk about how computer schooling may also help create the next technology of makers and builders that we'd like to unravel some of society’s greatest issues.

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On this episode, you’ll find out about:

Why faculties block some harmless instructional content material and coding sources, from frequent websites like Github to “view source” features on faculty-issued gadgets

How locked down digital techniques in schools stop younger people from learning about coding and computers, and create fairness issues for college kids who are already marginalized

How coding and “hack” clubs can empower young folks, assist them study self-expression, and discover neighborhood

How pervasive faculty surveillance undermines belief and limits people’s potential to train their rights when they are older

How young people’s curiosity for how things work on-line has helped deliver us a few of the know-how we love most

Zach Latta is the government director of Hack Membership, a national nonprofit connecting over 14,000 younger people to help them create and take part in coding clubs, hackathons, and workshops all over the world. He is a Forbes 30 Beneath 30 recipient and a Thiel Fellow.

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

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Roseville City Faculty District Embraces Chromebooks, However At What Price?

Fewer Sources, Fewer Decisions: A faculty Administrator in Indiana Works to guard Student Privacy

Legal Overview: Key Legal guidelines Relevant to the Protection of Pupil Knowledge

Proctoring Apps Topic Students to Unnecessary Surveillance

Scholar Privateness and the Battle to maintain Spying Out of Faculties: 12 months in Evaluation 2020

Censorship Requires Surveillance

Should you Build It, They will Come: Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Elevated Surveillance and Censorship World wide

Understanding and Circumventing Network Censorship

Hack Club

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Transcript:

Zach: I grew up close to Los Angeles, both my mother and father were social staff and rising up, I went to public schools that the majority faculties in America did not teach any pc courses. And for me, as a younger individual, I just felt like, oh my God, if solely I might determine how these magical units work, that is the place the secrets and techniques of the universe lie. But it was at all times a solitary exercise for me.

As a teenager I used to be very lonely and that culminated for me, I ended up dropping out of high school after my freshman yr when I was sixteen and i moved to San Francisco to turn into a programmer. And after working at a couple startups to get some money and put together some financial savings, I started Hack Club to try and create the sort of place and neighborhood that I so desperately wished I had when I used to be a teenager.

Cindy: That's Zach Latta. He's the founder of Hack Membership and he is our guest at present. Zach is going to inform us about how groups like Hack Club are teaching children find out how to hack and otherwise be creators on-line and the way that is one of many ways we can help shift them from being simply passive consumers of the digital world to really 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 improve fairness and what happens when a faculty's online safety and the legislation get in the best way of all that.

Cindy: I'm Cindy Cohn, EFF's government 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 Basis, the place we deliver you large concepts, solutions, and hope that we will repair the largest problems we face on-line.

Cindy: Zach, thanks a lot for joining us.

Zach: Well, thanks a lot for having me. I am so honored. Growing up as a teenager, I just liked the EFF and all the pieces 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 is how we ended up really meeting you. Can you discuss to us about what led you to try this?

Zach: We are a community of teenagers all the world over who love constructing issues with computer systems and run communities to try and convey teenagers collectively, to make things with technology. And almost every month, we now have a serious problem the place a faculty district just blocks Hack Membership. And there is no such thing as a worse call to get from a Hack Club, they're saying, "All proper, I bought 20 folks within the room, we're making an attempt to get started, hackclub.com is blocked, github.com is blocked, Stack Overflow is blocked, how can we presumably run our meeting from right here?"

Due to this downside, sort of in a little bit of frustration. With some Hack Clubbers I wrote a letter to EFF support line, simply saying, "Hey, is there any means that EFF could be ready to assist us with this? Because that is starting to be a factor the place it is not like one faculty has this problem, it is like we've got dozens of schools round America the place simply 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 is loopy. If you are a young one that needs to find out about computer systems and desires to learn how to code, you type of need the web to do this. And also you rely on websites like Google, like GitHub, like Stack Overflow, like GitLab. There's a whole ecosystem that every single skilled developer depends on every single day and at a big percentage of faculties around America, all of those sources are simply blocked, together with hackclub.com.

We run a club domestically right here in Vermont, where we test out all of our stuff before we put it online and open source it. And I was speaking with a Hack Clubber there where actually every single website in addition to college classroom is blocked on their college computer. And this Hack Clubber isn't from a family with means so the only computer that they have entry to at house is their faculty issued Chromebook. And in consequence, he's six weeks behind all people else on this membership and nonetheless hasn't gotten previous the preliminary hurdle of building early web sites.

Danny: Obviously what you are doing in Hack Membership must be extremely subversive to be blocked in this fashion. What are you doing? What are these children learning or failing to be taught because they cannot actually entry to the internet?

Zach: What Hack Club's all about is bringing teenagers together who love computers and need to discover ways to make things with computer systems. Whether or not it's building an internet site or making a video recreation or perhaps even beginning a local business and most colleges don't provide any curriculum or support round that. What Hack Clubbers are doing is in their meetings, they're usually making an attempt to learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript or later on, more superior languages like Rust or recently there's a giant motion round Zig, which is a brand new widespread language. And when you are trying to run the assembly and convey people to github.com, where we've a lot of our sources, when it is blocked, it's the assembly's lifeless on arrival. I don't think school directors are dangerous individuals. I come from an extended line of teachers and I feel that individuals in colleges are doing their greatest but are in all probability afraid round things like liability.

Cindy: Their incentive is simply to guantee that children do not ever get to something that might probably be problematic. They haven't got an incentive to make sure youngsters can truly learn some of these abilities. And so, while you outsource this to folks whose business it's to block, they're going to dam versus having a considerate course of by which you figure out what do college students actually have to study? And I feel you're completely right, when it comes to laptop programming and understanding how computers work, all people discovered this by going out onto the internet and discovering the locations the place different individuals are sharing this and one thing like GitHub, an enormous share of what truly runs the internet is there. It's slightly loopy

Danny: When we educate people to learn and write, we're not anticipating them to be English literature college students or novelists. We're giving them the tools to work in society. When we have reading, writing and algorithms or no matter, it is so that they will do what they want to do in society and they'll construct society with an understanding of the things round them.

Zach: If you realize that the world round us is built by different human beings, you notice you could be a kind of human beings. I think that starting 10 years ago, there was this massive shift in education that happened. And for some purpose nonetheless isn't actually part of the dialogue around what good classrooms or good studying environments looks like, which is that every single young person on the planet began having these magical gadgets of their pockets, which had all of human history and knowledge on them. These things are better than the Library of Alexandria. This is it. It doesn't get higher. And I believe that so much of public training programs world wide are designed to unravel access issues. How will we just simply get access to data in front of all people and to them?: And we've built this incredible distribution mechanism. It's actually outstanding however I think the brand new challenge of learning within the 21st century is one of motivation. How can we get people to care? How can we get individuals to make use of this? And I think that when we lock down digital techniques around younger people, we kind of inform them, "Don't poke and prod, don't strive issues, don't go out of your way to go down a path that we have not pre-authorized for you." And I feel that that sort of kills curiosity. It is actually counterproductive.

Danny: How much do you consider this is because you're referred to as Hack Membership? How much do you think is because people affiliate that with malicious hacking?

Zach: I believe it's perhaps a small ingredient. Even though I think Hack Club as a corporation is just a little subversive in nature. We work directly with teenagers. We operate type of outdoors of the system, in some regards. The schools that Hack Clubs are in, often the school loves Hack Club as a result of it's teenagers at their faculty who're getting collectively in a manner that means that they are really engaged of their learning. And we are one in all lots of of teams that run into these issues every single day. And I think this idea of students' rights, notably on the internet, as a result of it's so new, it's so technical, only for some reason isn't talked about in any respect, despite the fact that it affects young individuals more than virtually every other choice made at their college.

Cindy: We have been speaking so much about blocking entry to data, blocking websites and things like that but I think that you have seen problems with the devices themselves, have not you?

Zach: Yeah. Increasingly Hack Clubbers, the one system they have entry to either in conferences or at dwelling is a college issued Chromebook. And one of the options on faculty issued Chromebooks is to disable right clicking and clicking examine aspect. And you cannot learn to program web sites with out being able to do that. And this is such an actual drawback that we've had to construct our own debugger to assist with that.

Danny: Just to be clear right here, once you say proper click, this is the factor the place you've gotten the second mouse button after which folks all the time stumble on this by accident and wonder what the heck have I finished? Because you click on and then there's a bit of menu. It is for coders or for somebody who desires to kind of go a bit deeper or after all save an image. It's the kind of metaphor for, okay, let's go just a little bit deeper into what we're taking a look at here. And that doesn’t… children cannot try this on these lockdown computer systems?

Zach: Yeah. It is a gadget safety setting. You can flip off inspecting factor, which signifies that younger individuals in Hack Membership meetings who do not have a school issued laptop can view the source code of any web site that they go to. And if you do not have the sources at residence to have one and you only the varsity issued computer, you just can't.

Danny: All people within the early web learned how to build the rest of the early net by view source. There was slightly pull down menu.

Cindy: Completely.

Danny: And should you saw an online page that you just preferred, you can take a look at the unique HTML and then lower and paste it and mess around with it. And you're saying that youngsters simply have to take what they've given now?

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

Danny: Holy cow.

Cindy: And this can be a setting. Chromebooks do not come like this necessarily but they give the administrators the power to lock children out of this knowledge. It's simply, it is onerous to think about the thinking that leads you to decide that we will deny kids data at school.

Danny: And simply me and Zach and Cindy and now are vibrating within the studio. You cannot really see this. One of the issues so upsetting about this is that the surroundings, the mouse, the windowing surroundings that you're using was specifically constructed to be an educational environment that you could possibly explore and study. It's an absolute perversion of the very fundamental method this stuff had been developed and intended to use. It is like if you happen to gave someone a painting set however no paints.

Cindy: The equity points listed below are simply large. As a result of we know that one among the good things is that we're now giving youngsters units that they can use to assist themselves study. But in the event that they're locked down gadgets and that's the rich children have another system that they will use however the poor youngsters end up with only a lockdown device, a poor gadget for poor people actually it appears like.

Zach: If you look on the marketing for a few of these college filter companies, the marketing is like, we prevent pupil suicide. And it's, we prevent faculty shootings. What an odd connection to attract. After which the things they do to be able to draw that connection isn't only do they filter what websites you're able to go to however they really scan every single email you ship from your faculty account, every single IM that you send out of your faculty account, they scan the stuff you do on web sites. For this one district that we're in, in Georgia, when you go to a web site that's blocked, not only does it say, "This website's blocked, you're not allowed to come back right here," but it really says that there is a safety situation along with your computer and that the best way repair it is to obtain this intermediate SSL certificate, install it on your computer, set as a trusted supply and what meaning is it permits the varsity to man within the middle your whole encrypted traffic.

Danny: Right. That is like your undermining the safety of that computer. And I think this is de facto important to emphasise. One of the issues that we always talk about at EFF is you cannot do censorship with out surveillance. You have to be able to see what individuals are taking a look at to block it. And what that means for these sort of methods is, as you say, just to be clear, what that particular person is being asked to download there may be the grasp key to all of their communications on that laptop, from their financial details to every part.

Cindy: Sure. And it's a problem that predates COVID but it actually obtained supercharged throughout COVID, this idea that fixed surveillance is what you have to tolerate if you are a student. And Cit.si is harmful first as a result of that's dangerous for youths however it is also dangerous because we're making a generation of kids who assume that being watched on a regular basis is okay. This can be a basic human right. It's central to human dignity. And one of the issues that we've discovered is you cannot deny youngsters fully human dignity after which anticipate them to all of a sudden at age 18, be able to train their full rights in a method that will work. It doesn't 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 by a keener appreciation of our increasingly technological world and portraying the complex humanity of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians.

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

Zach: Effectively, there's two issues I might like to contact on there. I believe an concept that I'd love for us all to start speaking about is this concept of digital civic responsibility. And I feel it is the same thing the place you not solely obtain being a client but you give too. You make your individual web sites, you modify the internet, you modify expertise. You are not just a client, you are a creator too.

When it comes to what Hack Clubbers really feel about college surveillance. Hack Clubbers feel like they reside in an Orwellian surveillance state because you spend your time on networks which might be surveilled, the place if you try to poke prod, unhealthy issues might occur. And I believe undoubtedly Hack Clubbers feel like they cannot work together with their school on issues like these because I feel lots of faculty directors are not technical sufficient to grasp what's going on. When you flag the fallacious thing, you can very simply end up facing disciplinary motion or one thing like that. I had this occur when I used to be a teenager, I installed a VPN on my laptop, what I brought to my faculty, I used to be the one person at my college that I knew on a laptop computer and I was pulled apart by the vice principal as a result of they have been like, "Why are you hacking our college?"

Danny: And I believe it undermines belief. First of all, you set the stakes. That the administration is sort of claiming, "We do not really trust you so we're going to place this software." But then when kids who are curious and involved on this look into it, they understand that they're also being lied to.

Zach: And I believe it really undermines these values that we discuss rather a lot about, like curiosity, like tinkering, like attempting things out, determining who you wish to be through attempting to make issues. When there's a consequence to those actions, which is the case when you've got your web exercise filtered after which automatically reported in some cases, it implies that abruptly attempting to learn there might be a consequence in case you Google the wrong factor. And I believe that in a spot the place we care quite a bit about independence and the place we care too much about serving to people grow to be their very own individual agents of change, I believe that our digital environments that we create for young folks inside of faculties, I feel kind of does the opposite. It tells you, "No, you are a consumer, keep watching Netflix, don't mess with your computer."

Cindy: I believe this really hearkens back to the start of the Electronic Frontier Basis, the place we had regulation enforcement coming in and doing raids on numerous youngsters who had been poking around on the early internet, making an attempt to determine how things work. This is basically one of the founding stories of EFF. And the flip side of it is a few of those same youngsters or children who had been buddies with them, by the title of perhaps Wozniak or different issues, they went on to develop some of the instruments and the issues that we love probably the most. We're not simply doing something unfair to those kids, we may be brief circuiting the following era of people who find themselves going to bring us a better world.

Cindy: Let's discuss some of Hack Club's successes. And by the best way, I simply want to provide you with additional love for reclaiming the time period hack for doing one thing good. This is being a hacker, again, I'm an old-fashioned internet particular person, being a hacker was being anyone who dug in deeply, tried to figure issues out. And it might have been not the prettiest thing however truly made things work. And I think that someway we've lost that sense of the phrase and it's develop into synonymous with evil. And so I really admire you reclaiming it and lifting it up however that's just my little soapbox second. However let's hear some success stories. What is Hack Club doing for teenagers? What are you seeing?

Zach: Oh, it's incredible. I do not know. There's a Hack Clubbers who wrote a complete game engine in Rust. I was speaking with Hack Clubbers who constructed a complete clone of Minecraft in Rust the place they made the OpenGL calls themselves. But the thing that I think is really important about Hack Club for people who find themselves in it past just the coding and past the socialization is I think that for Hack Clubbers, coding isn't just a method to make video games or make a private webpage or I do not know, get a job in the future. It's a type of self expression. It is this is a spot the place I might be myself, the place I can get what is in my head out on paper. It is a thing that offers you energy and an company as a younger person that you do not actually find in school and don't actually find in different activities or around your life. And it is a spot where it doesn't actually matter where you are from or what you look like or who your dad and mom are, how a lot cash you make. It is that is a spot where folks will deal with you like an actual individual with actual respect. And I know for me, when I was a young person, I used to be really desperate for that.

Danny: As you talked about this, I used to be thinking about the early days of the net and the web. And that i abruptly thought to myself, it isn't simply Hack Membership, it's not simply these locations the place kids gather, I think an enormous chunk of the positive sides of the internet have been constructed by children or built by teenagers. I consider Aaron Swartz, who very near EFF. Me and Cindy knew him properly.

Zach: Wow. He's a personal hero of mine

Danny: Right. And when we first met Aaron, he was hacking on the basic code that was building the web with Tim Berners-Lee at, I think he should have been 14. Heaps of individuals begin out at that age. And the opposite thing is and I believe this goes to the heart of what we try to discuss on this present is you're modeling the constructive future of the web. And it's driven by individuals wanting to build that, wanting to construct that for themselves. Do the children you speak to, do they think about this extra widely?

Zach: I feel coding is the glue. It's the thing that brings everyone collectively however the magic is in all the why questions. Because Hack Membership's an area where folks ask questions like, who am I? Who do I want to be? What is this world I dwell in? What is my relationship with it? And I feel that we have now this concept of hacker buddies where if I believe if Hack Membership does one thing, we want to try and help young individuals discover different hacker associates as a result of when you've got another person such as you, that shares your curiosity at a very deep stage, it implies that whenever you discover these questions, you can go a lot deeper and you are feeling heard in a method that you may not if you do not have friends which are as into some of these items as you.

Cindy: Hack Membership's not the just one. There are applications like this all world wide which are really specifically aimed at reaching communities who mainly weren't the focus of type of the first technology of hacker children. If you happen to'd discuss that too, I would love it.

Zach: For me growing up and I feel that is constructed into Hack Membership's DNA, I positively felt like a toddler of the world or a child of the web because the people I used to be having so many of these formative conversations with on-line have been from all around the world from all backgrounds. And I feel that that's simply so extremely vital.

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

And because of this, whenever you stroll into a few of these clubs from around the world, the local leaders have really requested, "What makes probably the most sense for me? What makes the most sense for other folks like me?" And I believe that, particularly in areas the place people really feel marginalized or they do not see a home for themselves or they do not have role fashions in the same approach that some extra traditional of us may need, my hope is that with Hack Membership, that they'll build the home that they've all the time been on the lookout for. And I feel that the internet allows younger individuals to try this in a means that simply wasn't potential before.

Danny: That is such a cliche, but this is definitely the following generation. That is the long run. Do you have got any predictions about the future of the web? What are the things that they're constructing that are lacking in the prevailing system?

Zach: We face some of the biggest challenges over the next 50 years that humanity's ever had to reckon with. And I feel that we need a generation of young individuals who not solely have real laborious expertise, they will really do something from a builder perspective around these large challenges but they also have the precise mindset and network to assume somewhat bit in a different way.

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

They kind of see technology not as an finish in itself however as a device for every single factor needed to construct superb communities on this new world that we stay in.

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

Zach: I don't know if this is just too massive of an concept however I need to reside in a world the place there is a hacker president. But in more concrete terms, I want all of the progressive, exciting stuff to be open supply because it means that all of a sudden the people who can have interaction with it, isn't everybody who can afford to purchase a license to their firm but it's every single particular person that has technical information in your entire world and web access. I want to reside 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 movement. I think one of many things that distresses me in regards to the tales popping out of the early web is they all seem to at least one man who did one thing. And truthfully, they're nearly all guys and guys of a sure color. And I feel that this way of storytelling, I'm not sure it was actually all that true for those of us who lived through it however what I hear you is really, actually doubling down on this concept that it takes a movement, that individuals transfer together and that this type of single individual narrative isn't actually the narrative of fine change and that you are working to strive to construct communities and networks in order that we get previous that.

Zach: And I feel that one thing that basically helps with that is the open source motion and the open source group because it means that if you are coding on real tasks, the connection between you and the person that wrote that line of code is nearer than ever. And also you see, wow, projects like Ruby on Rails, they weren't constructed by one individual. They have been built by 2,000 individuals. And you see that comparable issues with large tasks, like Firefox, massive projects like Rust, these are things that take tribes.

Cindy: Yeah. And let's just double down, we got to get these obstacles out of the best way. Youngsters need to be able to access all the knowledge. They need to be able to proper click on on their Chromebooks and think about source and all of these items. And the role of that, which seems like humorous little geeky issues, it's central to how we get from here to there.

Danny: Nicely, thanks a lot, Zach. I look forward to not solely seeing what it's a must to provide you with sooner or later but seeing the subsequent 20 years of what these children produce.

Zach: Thanks so much for having me right here. It's such an honor to be in a position to affix you on this conversation. 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. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Cindy: It goes each ways, Zach. You might be elevating the next era of EFF members, probably EFF staffers and possibly congressional and administrative staffers who have this in their bones. And that's the world. Just understanding how expertise works isn't sufficient. And I believe that's really clear from what you're doing is you're constructing networks and you are building ethical and responsible frameworks for the way do you be anyone who understands about tech but is using it for good?

Cindy: Zach, thank you a lot. This has been so fun speaking to you and so inspiring. I agree, we started off and we had been talking about the problems that you are having and so they're tremendously vital. And of course that is where EFF's rubber meets the highway is attempting to get these obstacles out of the best way. However we ended in such a contented place when it comes to this future. So thank you.

Cindy: I so recognize hearing about optimistic, younger individuals finding, using and building the instruments to make issues better and the position that the internet is enjoying in both helping them join, and serving to them actually construct this right into a motion that is going to build the tools which might be going to make a better internet in the future.

Danny: So much of this discuss of the surveillance and the censorship of youngsters is wrapped this concept of preserving them protected. After which Zach who's caught within the center. He goes to the websites of those makers of filter technology the place they're actually claiming to be stopping school shootings and but all of us need kids to be secure but I do question whether or not this is basically security when Zack talks to the actual Hack Clubbers and they say that they really feel like they're in an Orwellian surveillance state, that is not security.

Cindy: No, no. And I think faculty administrators, it is simply clear that they're outgunned here and we'd like to essentially assist them in recognizing what kids actually need to grow. I additionally actually appreciated him talking about coding as a type of self expression. Obviously that's near and dear to my heart as EFF began with the concept that code is speech but also that this self expression is not simply in a constitutional sense. It's about a place where I will be myself, where I can really be the real me and all of that coming out of the concept that individuals are studying find out how to code, this as a means of self expression it is simply heartening.

Danny: You educate children how to specific themselves, whether it is code and talking up after which they get to be a part of that debate. And I think they're an necessary part of that debate.

Cindy: One of the issues that I actually loved about the way Zach talked about the community he is building is it is being built by teenagers for teenagers, possibly for the remainder of us too. However recognizing that this community must be designing the applied sciences and growing the applied sciences that this group needs. That the place it must be centered. It reminds me of the dialog we had with Matt Mitchell, the place he talked about communities needing to build the tools that they want, whether they're in, the place he was in Harlem or in a rural space or somewhere all over the world. This community empowerment works not only in geography but also within the distinction between being a kid and being an adult.

Cindy: Properly, because of our guest, Zach Latta, for sharing his optimism and the work that he's doing. If you would like to begin a Hack Club or donate to help help them, they're at hackclub.com. There are related organizations all throughout the country and all the world over. However supporting this work, I think is tremendously important to construct a future web that all of us want to live in.

Danny: Thanks again, for joining us. If in case you have any feedback on this episode, do email us at podcast@eff.org. We learn every e-mail and we be taught from your whole comments. For those who do like what you hear, observe us in your favorite podcast player. We've bought heaps extra episodes in retailer this season. Nat Keefe and Reed Mathis at Beat Mower made the music for this podcast with extra music and sounds used below the inventive commons license from CCMixter. You could find the credits for each of the musicians and links to the music in our episode notes. How to fix 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 how to repair the Internet was created for us by Reed Mathis and Nat Keefe of BeatMower. This podcast is licensed Inventive Commons Attribution 4.Zero International, and consists of music licensed Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported by their creators. You can find their names and links to their music in our episode notes, or on our web site at eff.org/podcast. I’m Danny O’Brien.

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