Color of Change’s Arisha Hatch: “Silicon Valley is living a lie”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Arisha Hatch, head of campaigns at Color of Change, to talk about organising the Facebook ad boycott (5:00), why she chose to focus on the tech industry (8:55), trying to force change (11:40), whether it feels futile (15:00), what comes next in the civil rights campaign v Big Tech (17:20), the political exception on Facebook (21:00), the coming regulatory crackdown (22:30), tech’s tipping point (24:40), Silicon Valley’s grand delusion (27:15), pressuring Airbnb, Twitter and Google (32:00), ensuring a new civil rights executive is brought in at Facebook (33:40), and the dissonance between Silicon Valley’s marketing and the reality (35:00).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:02.9	What is it all about?
0:04.5	The thing that frustrates me about Silicon Valley and tech is that there's this mentality that we are doing this for good.
0:11.1	Yes.
0:11.4	It's tech for good.
0:12.4	We are improving everyone's lives.
0:14.3	And that is just false when it comes to a certain set of people.
0:17.8	That they are living a lie.
0:26.2	Okay. certain set of people. They are living a lie. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes
0:30.6	and inside the minds of the top people in tech. I hope you all are doing well, as is happening
0:36.7	depressingly often these days.
0:40.7	We are bringing you a pod this week in the wake of the shooting of another unarmed black man.
0:46.5	There have been protests.
0:48.4	There have been counter protests.
0:50.1	It's all happening in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where the shooting took place.
0:54.5	And as of this recording, the NBA has just canceled games for at least two days.
0:59.1	This is Wednesday evening.
1:01.1	There is discussion about actually canceling the entire season in protest.
1:06.3	Major League Baseball is canceled games.
1:08.5	WNBA has canceled games in solidarity. You have the Republican
1:12.9	National Convention going on. Things are just very fraught. And then just this evening, Wednesday,
1:21.0	an armed vigilante walked into a crowd of protesters and opened fire, killing two people and injuring
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