Podcast / Tech Won’t Save Us / May 23, 2024

Tech’s Plan to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco

On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Gil Duran on a plan for “tech Zionism” in Silicon Valley.

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Tech’s Plan to ‘Ethnically Cleanse’ San Francisco with Gil Duran | Tech Won't Save Us
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Paris Marx is joined by Gil Duran to discuss Balaji Srinivasan’s plan to implement “tech Zionism” in San Francisco and the threat posed by Silicon Valley's growing opposition to democracy.

Gil Duran is an independent journalist and former editorial page editor for the Sacramento Bee.

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Balaji Srinivasan, former chief technology officer of Coinbase Inc., speaks during the Singapore Fintech Festival, in Singapore, on Friday, Nov. 4, 2022.

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On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, we’re joined by Gil Duran to discuss Balaji Srinivasan’s plan to implement “tech Zionism” in San Francisco and the threat posed by Silicon Valley’s growing opposition to democracy.

Gil Duran is an independent journalist and former editorial page editor for The Sacramento Bee.

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The Threat of Data Colonialism w/ Ulises A. Mejias & Nick Couldry | Tech Won't Save Us
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On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry to discuss how Silicon Valley's extractive data collection regime and the power it grants them resembles a much older form of exploitation: colonialism.

Ulises A. Mejias is a professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego and Nick Couldry is a professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics. They are the co-authors of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back and among the co-founders of the network Tierra Común.

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Paris Marx

Paris 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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