Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

On today's episode we have Professor Rob Larson on to talk about his new book, Bit Tyrants.

We cover a lot of different things about Big Tech, the way they treat their workers, the

way they manipulate our psychologies, the way that they privatize social gains and taxpayer

investments etc. So it's a really sort of wide conversation about Big Tech and how capitalism

shapes it and what we can do to fight back and how socialists should think about the internet

going forward and as a part of our vision for transforming society. The last question of this

discussion is really based around what socializing the internet might look like and what steps we

could take to do it, what obstacles we would face if we tried. So it's a really timely,

important conversation I hope people enjoy it. Before we get into the episode though I do want to

let people know that our organization here in Omaha, the Nebraska Left Coalition is currently doing

their spring fundraising drive. We do this every spring to help collect money, we have other ways

of fundraising as well but this is one major way we do it and we take that money and we basically put

it into mutual aid programs of financial assistance programs and things like no interest loans for

example or sometimes in certain cases just giving money to people who need it. We are developing

sort of autonomous food production, we have a few gardens going and we take that food and make

sure people have it and need it especially in the context of this virus, this viral outbreak,

slash pandemic and the possible economic downturn that might be a result of it, these mutual aid

programs and these ability for community organizations to go out and help people meet their needs

and desperate times is becoming increasingly important. So if you have a few extra dollars laying

around I'll put the link to that donation drive in the show notes and if you have a few extra dollars

definitely consider helping out your money is going to a good organization that does good work

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