The Rise and Fall of the Alt Tech Movement

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There's been this alt tech movement as it's sometimes called or for years now really and some of it again is rude and very understandable principles. There are political principles behind it like we want our own infrastructure we don't want to be censored you know. And so these are kind of what we're talking about are platforms that people are much more familiar with right the facebook's the twitter's of the world that a lot of people use but there's also been a move to create specific platforms for specific communities.

Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss how the right-wing of the tech industry are funding media platforms like Rumble to reshape the political discourse and why they’re helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenge Joe Biden.

Jacob Silverman is a journalist and the co-author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. He’s also the host of The Naked Emperor on CBC Podcasts. You can check out Jacob’s Substack.

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.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

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