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Digital Sovereignty in a Time of Rising Fascism

4/17/2025 • 41 min

Paris Marx is doing a solo episode this week to bring together some important issues that have been on his mind lately. This is a recording of a talk Paris gave in Auckland, New Zealand on how Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump forces us to reassess the politics of the internet and challenge our collective dependence on US tech as it embraces the projec… Play episode

Can Europe End Its Dependence on US Tech? w/ Aline Blankertz
The Dirty Alliance Between Tech and the Oil Industry w/ JS Tan
DOGE Is Gutting the US Digital Service w/ Kate Green and Milo
Preview: Breaking Down Canada’s Election on Campaign Cops
Canada’s Tech Leaders Want Their Own DOGE w/ Jen St. Denis
AI Hype Enters Its Geopolitics Era w/ Timnit Gebru
The UK’s Misguided Embrace of AI Hype w/ James Meadway
Protesting Tesla Can Hurt Elon Musk w/ Ed Niedermeyer
How DOGE is Remaking the US Government w/ Makena Kelly
Patreon Preview: The Harms of Generative AI w/ Alex Hanna
The Tech Oligarchy’s Campaign Against the Media w/ Eoin Higgins
Patreon Preview: Sam Altman’s Self-Serving AGI Future w/ Julia Black
How Spotify Remade the Music Industry w/ Liz Pelly
The Problem With Cyberlibertarianism w/ Chris Gilliard
Patreon Preview: Do We Live in a Simulation? w/ Émile P. Torres
The New Tech Oligarchy w/ Gaby Del Valle
Patreon Preview: The Fascistic Solutionism of AI w/ Dan McQuillan
How to See Tech Like a Luddite w/ Jathan Sadowski
Patreon Preview: How Big Tech Made the Cloud w/ Dwayne Monroe
What Netflix Has Done to Movies w/ Will Tavlin
How Cloud Giants Cement Their Power w/ Cecilia Rikap
Maybe We Should Destroy AI w/ Ali Alkhatib
The Year in Tech w/ Molly White, Brian Merchant, & Eric Wickham
How Data Is Changing Air Travel w/ Amanda Mull
Patreon Preview: Spain Doesn’t Have Water for Data Centers w/ Aurora Gomez…
Should Australia Ban Teens from Social Media? w/ Cam Wilson
Patreon Preview: The Crippling Energy Demand of Ireland’s Data Centers w/ …
Patreon Preview: Fighting Data Centers in Chile w/ Sebastian Lehuede
Nuclear Won’t Meet Tech’s Energy Demands w/ MV Ramana
The Forgotten Story of How Conservatives Shaped the Internet w/ Becca Lewis
Patreon Preview: How Cloud Giants Cement Their Power w/ Cecilia Rikap
Making Sense of a Pro-Tech Trump Presidency w/ Brian Merchant
Patreon Preview: Maybe We Should Destroy AI w/ Ali Alkhatib
The Corruption of Open Source w/ tante
Silicon Valley is Reshaping US Democracy w/ Jacob Silverman
Data Vampires: Fighting for Control (Episode 4)
The Threat of Data Colonialism w/ Ulises A. Mejias & Nick Couldry
Data Vampires: Sacrificing for AI (Episode 3)
The “Dark Elf” Leading Tech’s Extreme Right w/ Julia Black
Data Vampires: Opposing Data Centers (Episode 2)
Gaza Is a Laboratory for Future Warfare w/ Spencer Ackerman
Data Vampires: Going Hyperscale (Episode 1)
Don’t Fall for Mark Zuckerberg’s Rebrand w/ Karl Bode
What Happens to Our Digital Footprints When We Die? w/ Tamara Kneese
Will Google’s Monopoly Be Broken Up? w/ Rob Larson
Google and Meta Are A Threat to Journalism w/ Matt Pearce
Unionizing the Video Game Industry w/ Taylor Welling & Kathryn Friesen
No Tech for Apartheid w/ Mohammad Khatami & Gabi Schubiner
Crypto Is Spending Millions to Sway the US Election w/ Molly White

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