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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.

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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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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.

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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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Brazil’s Data Center Boom is Enabled by Renewables Firms w/ Laís Martins / Tech Won’t Save Us
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Brazil’s renewable energy is being exploited to justify unnecessary data center construction. Laís Martins joins Paris Marx to discuss why the renewable energy sector is behind a rise in Brazilian data center development, how this is impacting communities, and the ways this greenwashing is redirecting funding away from more socially progressive projects.

Laís Martins is a technology reporter at The Intercept Brasil.

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Paris Marx is the author of Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires. He hosts the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast and writes the Disconnect newsletter.

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