Grant Burningham interviewed me for his Bots and Ballots podcast (MP3), covering a bunch of extremely timely tech-politics issues: Facebook and the impact of commercial surveillance on democratic elections; Alex Jones, censorship and market concentration; and monopolism and the future of the internet.
Talking surveillance, elections, monopolies, and Facebook on the Bots and Ballots podcast
The Onion CEO on saving media
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