Ro Khanna is Optimistic About the Internet

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Congressman Ro Khanna, Silicon Valley’s most progressive representative, joins Jon to talk about where tech went wrong and how we can get it back on course. Providing legislative solutions, he teaches Jon how we can use technology to create economic opportunity and a functioning, healthy, multiracial democracy.

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0:00.0	Think about the folks listening to you and how much of your life is digital.
0:04.6	How many times do you go and search on Google?
0:06.6	How many times do you look on your phone?
0:08.4	How many times do you tweet something out?
0:11.0	And who is making all of these decisions?
0:13.8	They're folks sitting in Silicon Valley.
0:16.3	You know, I'm convinced Clubhouse would not be as racist and sexist if there were more
0:19.9	black people and women designing the architecture.
0:23.2	And I'm convinced some of these platforms will be more inclusive of rural communities if
0:26.5	their kids were designing the architecture.
0:28.6	So you've got a very small group of folks making the decisions for how we're going to live
0:34.7	our digital lives that are economically hugely consequential.
0:39.7	90% of the stock market gains were because of tech.
0:43.1	$11 trillion a market kept in my district.
0:45.6	John, let me think about that.
0:47.5	And that are extraordinarily consequential in terms of our public life.
0:52.5	And people are looking there and they're saying, well, where are we in the picture?
0:57.5	I'm John Favreau.
0:58.5	Welcome to Offline.
1:01.9	Hey, everyone.
1:02.8	My guest this week is Congressman Rokana.
1:05.9	So I've been avoiding having politicians on offline for a few reasons.
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