On the decentralized web, truth, and human rights: 'Hacking authenticity'

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Andreessen Horowitz

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4.4 • 66 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We discuss human rights including recent crises in various regions around the world -- and the role of technology, such as the decentralized web for establishing "ground truth" -- with Jonathan Dotan, Emmy-winning producer and former writer on HBO's Silicon Valley and founding director of The Starling Lab for Data Integrity at Stanford (which prototypes tools and principles to bring historians, legal experts, and journalists into the new era of web3).

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0:00.0	Welcome to Web 3 with A6 and Z, a show about building the next generation of the Internet from the team at A6 and Z crypto.
0:10.0	This show is for anyone, whether company leader or other entrepreneur, creator or developer, media or policymaker, seeking to understand and go deeper on all things blockchains, crypto and web 3.
0:22.0	We're back with all new episodes
0:24.2	beginning with some conversations from our recent second annual Founders Summit
0:28.4	including today's episode which covers human rights such as recent crises in various regions around the world
0:35.0	and the role of technology such as a decentralized web.
0:39.0	Our special guest is Jonathan Doten, tech founder, Emmy-nominated producer, and writer who spent six seasons on
0:46.1	HBO's show Silicon Valley.
0:48.4	Doten is also the founding director of the Starling Lab for Data Integrity at Stanford, which prototypes tools and
0:54.6	principles to bring historians, legal experts, and journalists into the new era of
0:59.8	Web 3. So here he's in conversation with our very own Robert Hackett, who has joined to
1:04.9	host the show a number of times so you'll recognize his voice, and who was also a former
1:09.3	senior editor at Fortune, among other things.
1:12.8	They discuss how cryptographic technologies can help establish ground tooth in conflict zones,
1:18.4	the history of open source regulation, and more.
1:21.6	As a reminder, none of the following should be taken as business legal
1:24.8	tax or investment advice. Please see a six and see.com slash disclosures for more
1:29.8	important information including a link to a list of our investments.
1:33.0	Hi everybody, I'm Robert Hackett, I'm an editor here at A16Z crypto.
1:37.0	I got to say, while you were just talking about how the government is viewing this stuff,
1:42.0	I'm getting an intense bout of deja vu.
1:44.6	Like didn't we fight these battles in the 90s about cryptography being munitions and there was
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