Hakeem Anwar | Digital Freedom, The Above Phone, & Taking Back Our Tech
The Higherside Chats
Greg Carlwood
4.7 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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About Today's Guest: Hakeem Anwar is a technologist and educator who dropped his career in big tech to work on meaningful social movements. He founded #TakeBackOurTech to teach freedom lovers how to use technology privately, and created Above: a privacy-first technology company that develops phones, laptops, and communication services.
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| 0:00.0 | The planet's puppet masters almost surely have a plan. |
| 0:05.0 | There's clearly maybe something there beyond the realm of man. |
| 0:09.0 | And until we thoroughly tested every last close-chested view, |
| 0:16.0 | I find the more we think we know, the less we really do. |
| 0:29.6 | Where would we be without T.A.C. |
| 0:33.6 | Because we know they're lying to us, just don't know to what degree. |
| 0:38.3 | Where would we be without TCHC, the Higher Side Chat Show? |
| 0:46.3 | Greg Carl Wood and Company. |
| 0:56.8 | Surrenderedity now, |
| 0:57.7 | Higher Side Chatters, |
| 0:59.9 | doing what we do from the Sunshine State. |
| 1:00.9 | I'm Greg Carlewood. |
| 1:03.3 | We've been well aware for over a decade that the smartphone shift came with a new gold rush |
| 1:06.1 | in harnessing our once thought to be |
| 1:08.1 | private data, behavioral habits, and digital footprints. |
| 1:11.6 | But many of us saw the bright, shining new object and completely acquiesced to that arrangement. |
| 1:16.4 | Heck, we still don't even read the terms we agree to. |
| 1:19.0 | But over time, we've learned a lot more about harmful EMFs, blue light, Bluetooth, |
| 1:23.9 | psychological manipulation, the altering of our brain chemistry, algorithmic, emotional |
| 1:28.5 | button pushing, even the gross human rights abuses and slavery lining the entire production |
| 1:33.3 | pipeline of getting you your own personal mini monolith. We've watched the technocrats undercutting |
| 1:39.1 | and middle manning almost all routine commerce and taking the lion's share of any transaction to do it. |
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