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The Forgotten Story of How Conservatives Shaped the Internet

On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Becca Lewis on the right-wing tech project of the 1990s.

Paris Marx

November 21, 2024

The Nation

Texas Governor and US presidential candidate George W. Bush listens to Shane Linstrom as Virginia Governor James Gilmore III (R) looks on during a tour of the High Tech Adventure Camp at Thomas A. Edison High School in Alexandria, VA 14 July 1999.(Joyce Naltchayan / AFP via Getty Images)

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The Forgotten Story of How Conservatives Shaped the Internet w/ Becca Lewis | Tech Won't Save Us
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On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Becca Lewis to discuss the right-wing project to shape the internet in the 1990s and how we’re still living with the legacies of those actions today. Becca Lewis is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.

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On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, we’re joined by Becca Lewis to discuss the right-wing project to shape the Internet in the 1990s and how we’re still living with the legacies of those actions today. Becca Lewis is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.

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The Dirty Alliance Between Tech and the Oil Industry w/ JS Tan | Tech Won't Save Us
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On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by JS Tan to discuss his experience seeing first hand how Microsoft deployed its cloud and machine learning services to help Chevron extract more oil and gas, and the state of tech worker organizing around climate change. 

JS Tan is a PhD student at MIT, researching cloud computing in the US and China. He’s a a member of Collective Action in Tech and writes the Value Added newsletter.

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Paris MarxParis Marx is a tech critic and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.


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