From Toxic Platforms to a Diverse, Paid Internet
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Resources & Recommendations
Books
- "How to fix the internet" by Kade Metapolis - An article discussing the current state of the internet, its problems, and potential solutions, published in MIT Technology Review.
People Mentioned
- Stewart Brand - Founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and The WELL, attributed with the phrase "information wants to be free."
- Anil Dash - A tech entrepreneur and blogging pioneer who worked at Six Apart, the company that developed Movable Type.
- Yoel Roth - A technology policy fellow at UC Berkeley and former head of Trust and Safety for Twitter.
- Richard Stallman - An internet pioneer who has expressed skepticism of Meta's intentions regarding Threads.
- Paige Collings - A senior speech and privacy advocate at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- Adrian Walker - The narrator of the episode.
- Stephen Johnson - Co-founder of NotebookLM.
Organizations & Institutions
- US Federal Trade Commission - An organization that received a complaint about DoubleClick's plans to combine personal data with tracking cookies.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - An organization where Paige Collings works as a senior speech and privacy advocate.
Tools & Software
- NotebookLM - An AI-first tool designed to help organize ideas and make connections from complex information.
- Movable Type - A blog software developed by Six Apart.
Websites & Online Resources
- The WELL - A pioneering internet community.
- Substack - A platform where individual creators and publishers are being paid for content.
- Patreon - A platform where individual creators and publishers are being paid for content.
- Twitch - A platform where individual creators and publishers are being paid for content.
- Mastodon - A federated social network offering a decentralized version of social networking.
- BlueSky - A federated social network offering a decentralized version of social networking.
- Threads - Meta's federated social network.
- 4chan - An imageboard website mentioned as a source of trolls and coordinated harassment.
- The Daily Stormer - A neo-Nazi website mentioned as an example of negative online content.
- Reddit - A social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website, mentioned in the context of Gamergate and racism.
- Roblox - An online game platform and game creation system, mentioned in the context of adults messaging kids.
- MIT Technology Review Narrated - The podcast itself, which presents in-depth stories from science and technology.
- Noah app (news over audio com) - An app for listening to narrated articles from various publishers.