The Government Is Always Making Choices, Right?

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The government has never left the picture. It's just made different choices to cut taxes or de regulate, or not regulate the internet industry faithfully. That has allowed a lot of companies go and lots of things to grow. But policy choices are always shaping what the market is doing. And so we, who are, you know, citizens, need to decide what are the choices we want our governments to be making? What you're describing really shows that, right?

Paris Marx is joined by Margaret O’Mara to discuss how the state and military have been at the center of the US tech industry since the very beginning, but how it was written out of the popular narrative during the neoliberal turn in the 1980s.

Margaret O’Mara is the author of “The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America” and a professor at the University of Washington. Follow Margaret on Twitter as @margaretomara.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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