Like many young folks, Zach Latta went to a college that didn't teach any computer classes. However that didn’t cease him from studying the whole lot he could about them and changing into a programmer at a young age. After moving to San Francisco, Zach founded Hack Membership, a nonprofit network of high school coding clubs around the world, to help other students find the training and community that he wished he had as a teenager.

This week on our podcast, we talk to Zach about the significance of pupil entry to an open internet, why learning to code can enhance equity, and the way college's online security and the law often stand in the way in which. We’ll also focus on how laptop training may help create the following technology of makers and builders that we'd like to solve some of society’s largest issues.

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On this episode, you’ll find out about:

Why colleges block some harmless educational content material and coding resources, from frequent sites like Github to “view source” features on college-issued units
How locked down digital systems in colleges cease young individuals from learning about coding and computer systems, and create fairness points for college kids who are already marginalized
How coding and “hack” clubs can empower young folks, help them study self-expression, and find group
How pervasive school surveillance undermines trust and limits people’s ability to train their rights when they are older
How young people’s curiosity for how issues work on-line has helped convey us a number of the expertise we love most

Zach Latta is the government director of Hack Membership, a national nonprofit connecting over 14,000 young folks to assist them create and take part in coding clubs, hackathons, and workshops world wide. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient and a Thiel Fellow.

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Resources

Coders’ Rights

Coders’ Rights Undertaking
Coders’ Rights Project Reverse Engineering FAQ

Students’ Rights and Surveillance

Pupil Privateness
Roseville City Faculty District Embraces Chromebooks, But At What Price?
Fewer Sources, Fewer Selections: A faculty Administrator in Indiana Works to guard Student Privateness
Authorized Overview: Key Laws Relevant to the Safety of Pupil Knowledge
Proctoring Apps Topic Students to Unnecessary Surveillance
Pupil Privacy and the Struggle to keep Spying Out of Colleges: Year in Assessment 2020

Censorship Requires Surveillance

If you happen to Build It, They are going to Come: Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Elevated Surveillance and Censorship All over the world
Understanding and Circumventing Network Censorship

Hack Membership

Map of Hack Clubs worldwide
Mirror (bulCkcaH.com)

Transcript:

Zach: I grew up near Los Angeles, both my mother and father had been social workers and rising up, I went to public faculties that the majority schools in America did not educate any laptop lessons. And for me, as a younger person, I simply felt like, oh my God, if only I could figure out how these magical units work, that is the place the secrets of the universe lie. However it was at all times a solitary activity for me.

As a teenager I was very lonely and that culminated for me, I ended up dropping out of high school after my freshman year when I was sixteen and that i moved to San Francisco to develop into a programmer. And after working at a couple startups to get some money and put collectively some savings, I began Hack Club to try to create the kind of place and group that I so desperately wished I had when I was a teenager.

Cindy: That's Zach Latta. He's the founder of Hack Club and he's our guest right now. Zach goes to tell us about how groups like Hack Membership are instructing youngsters find out how to hack and in any other case be creators on-line and how that is one of the ways we can help shift them from being just passive consumers of the digital world to really charting their own futures.

Danny: We're going to speak to Zach about student rights to an open internet, why learning to code can increase equity and what occurs when a college's online safety and the legislation get in the way of all that.

Cindy: I'm Cindy Cohn, EFF's executive director.

Danny: And I'm Danny O'Brien, particular advisor to the EFF. Welcome to How to repair the Internet, a podcast of the Electronic Frontier Basis, where we carry you large concepts, options, and hope that we can repair the most important problems we face on-line.

Cindy: Zach, thanks so much for joining us.

Zach: Nicely, thank you a lot for having me. I am so honored. Rising up as a teenager, I just beloved the EFF and every part the group stood for. It's a real honor to be with all of you right here in the present day.

Cindy: Oh, terrific.

You reached out to EFF for help and that's how we ended up actually assembly you. Are you able to speak to us about what led you to do that?

Zach: We are a community of teenagers all internationally who love constructing issues with computers and run communities to try and bring teenagers collectively, to make issues with know-how. And almost every month, we've got a significant problem where a school district just blocks Hack Membership. And there is no worse call to get from a Hack Club, they're saying, "All right, I acquired 20 people within the room, we're attempting to get began, hackclub.com is blocked, github.com is blocked, Stack Overflow is blocked, how can we probably run our meeting from right here?"

Due to this downside, kind of in a bit of frustration. With some Hack Clubbers I wrote a letter to EFF support line, simply saying, "Hey, is there any means that EFF might be in a position to help us with this? As a result of that is starting to be a thing where it isn't like one school has this drawback, it is like we have dozens of schools around America where simply everything's blocked."

Danny: Simply to be clear right here, this is not simply you being blocked, that is major informational assets, proper?

Zach: Oh yeah. It is crazy. If you're a young one who wants to study computer systems and desires to learn to code, you kind of need the internet to do this. And also you rely on sites like Google, like GitHub, like Stack Overflow, like GitLab. There's an entire ecosystem that each single professional developer depends on every single day and at a significant percentage of schools around America, all of these sources are just blocked, together with hackclub.com.

We run a membership locally here in Vermont, where we check out all of our stuff earlier than we put it on-line and open source it. And I used to be talking with a Hack Clubber there the place actually each single website in addition to school classroom is blocked on their college laptop. And this Hack Clubber is not from a family with means so the only computer that they've access to at home is their faculty issued Chromebook. And as a result, he is six weeks behind all people else in this club and still hasn't gotten previous the initial hurdle of constructing early websites.

Danny: Clearly what you are doing in Hack Membership have to be extremely subversive to be blocked in this way. What are you doing? What are these kids studying or failing to be taught as a result of they cannot really entry to the web?

Zach: What Hack Membership's all about is bringing teenagers together who love computer systems and need to learn how to make things with computers. Whether it is constructing a website or making a video sport or possibly even beginning a local business and most schools don't provide any curriculum or help round that. What Hack Clubbers are doing is of their conferences, they're normally making an attempt to be taught HTML, CSS, JavaScript or later on, extra advanced languages like Rust or not too long ago there's an enormous movement round Zig, which is a brand new popular language. And when you are trying to run the assembly and convey folks to github.com, the place we now have a variety of our sources, when it is blocked, it is the assembly's useless on arrival. I don't think faculty administrators are unhealthy people. I come from a long line of teachers and I think that people in faculties are doing their greatest but are in all probability afraid round things like liability.

Cindy: Their incentive is simply to make sure that kids do not ever get to something that may possibly be problematic. They do not have an incentive to make sure kids can really study some of these abilities. And so, whenever you outsource this to people whose enterprise it is to dam, they're going to dam versus having a thoughtful course of by which you determine what do college students really must be taught? And I believe you're completely proper, in the case of computer programming and understanding how computers work, all people discovered this by going out onto the web and discovering the places the place other persons are sharing this and something like GitHub, a huge percentage of what truly runs the web is there. It's just a little loopy

Danny: When we teach people to read and write, we're not expecting them to be English literature students or novelists. We're giving them the tools to work in society. When we've reading, writing and algorithms or whatever, it's in order that they can do what they need to do in society and they will construct society with an understanding of the things around them.

Zach: Whenever you realize that the world around us is built by different human beings, you realize you may very well be one of those human beings. I think that starting 10 years ago, there was this large shift in schooling that occurred. And for some cause nonetheless isn't really part of the dialogue round what good classrooms or good learning environments appears like, which is that every single younger particular person on the planet started having these magical devices of their pockets, which had all of human historical past and knowledge on them. These things are higher than the Library of Alexandria. That is it. It doesn't get better. And I feel that so much of public education techniques all over the world are designed to solve access problems. How do we simply merely get access to information in front of all people and to them?: And we have constructed this unimaginable distribution mechanism. It's really remarkable however I think the new challenge of studying within the 21st century is one in all motivation. How will we get people to care? How will we get individuals to use this? And I believe that once we lock down digital systems round younger individuals, we sort of tell them, "Don't poke and prod, do not try issues, do not go out of your option to go down a path that we have not pre-accepted for you." And I feel that that type of kills curiosity. It's really counterproductive.

Danny: How a lot do you think of it's because you are called Hack Membership? How a lot do you suppose is as a result of folks affiliate that with malicious hacking?

Zach: I think it's maybe a small factor. Although I feel Hack Club as a company is somewhat subversive in nature. We work immediately with teenagers. We function kind of exterior of the system, in some regards. The colleges that Hack Clubs are in, often the school loves Hack Club because it is teenagers at their faculty who're getting together in a approach that means that they're actually engaged of their studying. And we are one in all lots of of groups that run into these issues each single day. And I think this concept of students' rights, significantly on the internet, as a result of it's so new, it is so technical, just for some cause isn't talked about in any respect, even though it affects younger people more than almost some other choice made at their college.

Cindy: We've been talking a lot about blocking entry to data, blocking websites and issues like that but I think that you have seen problems with the units themselves, haven't you?

Zach: Yeah. More and more Hack Clubbers, the only gadget they have entry to either in conferences or at home is a faculty issued Chromebook. And one of many options on school issued Chromebooks is to disable right clicking and clicking examine factor. And also you can't discover ways to program websites with out being in a position to try this. And this is such an actual problem that we've had to construct our own debugger to assist with that.

Danny: Simply to be clear right here, if you say right click, this is the thing where you could have the second mouse button after which people all the time stumble on this by accident and wonder what the heck have I carried out? Since you click on and then there's a bit menu. It is for coders or for somebody who wants to sort of go a bit deeper or of course save an image. It's the sort of metaphor for, okay, let's go a little bit bit deeper into what we're taking a look at here. And that doesn’t… kids can't try this on these lockdown computers?

Zach: Yeah. It's a device safety setting. You possibly can flip off inspecting ingredient, which means that young folks in Hack Club conferences who do not have a school issued computer can view the supply code of any web site that they go to. And if you do not have the sources at residence to have one and you only the college issued computer, you just cannot.

Danny: Everyone in the early web discovered how to construct the remainder of the early internet by view supply. There was just a little pull down menu.

Cindy: Absolutely.

Danny: And in the event you saw an online web page that you simply appreciated, you may look at the unique HTML after which cut and paste it and mess around with it. And you are saying that kids simply have to take what they've given now?

Zach: You excellent click on and it is not an option.

Danny: Holy cow.

Cindy: And this can be a setting. Chromebooks do not come like this essentially however they offer the directors the power to lock youngsters out of this data. It is simply, it's exhausting to think about the thinking that leads you to determine that we'll deny youngsters data in class.

Danny: And simply me and Zach and Cindy and now are vibrating within the studio. You can't really see this. One of many issues so upsetting about that is that the setting, the mouse, the windowing setting that you are using was particularly constructed to be an academic environment that you can explore and be taught. It is an absolute perversion of the very elementary approach these things were developed and intended to make use of. It's like when you gave somebody a painting set however no paints.

Cindy: The equity issues here are just tremendous. Because we all know that certainly one of the great issues is that we're now giving children devices that they can use to help themselves be taught. But in the event that they're locked down units and that is the wealthy youngsters have one other gadget that they can use however the poor children find yourself with just a lockdown gadget, a poor device for poor individuals actually it appears like.

Zach: Whenever you look on the advertising for some of these faculty filter firms, the marketing is like, we forestall pupil suicide. And it's, we forestall school shootings. What a wierd connection to draw. After which the things they do to be in a position to draw that connection will not be solely do they filter what websites you're in a position to go to however they actually scan every single email you send out of your college account, each single IM that you simply send out of your school account, they scan the stuff you do on websites. For this one district that we're in, in Georgia, whenever you go to a web site that's blocked, not solely does it say, "This web site's blocked, you're not allowed to come back right here," nevertheless it really says that there's a safety subject along with your laptop and that the way repair it is to download this intermediate SSL certificate, set up it on your computer, set as a trusted source and what meaning is it allows the college to man in the middle your entire encrypted site visitors.

Danny: Right. That's like your undermining the safety of that pc. And I think this is really necessary to emphasize. One of many issues that we always speak about at EFF is you cannot do censorship with out surveillance. You've gotten to be able to see what people are taking a look at to dam it. And what meaning for these sort of techniques is, as you say, just to be clear, what that person is being requested to download there may be the master key to all of their communications on that pc, from their monetary details to every thing.

Cindy: Sure. And it's a problem that predates COVID nevertheless it really obtained supercharged during COVID, this concept that constant surveillance is what it's important to tolerate if you're a pupil. And that is harmful first because that is dangerous for youths however it's also dangerous because we're making a era of youngsters who think that being watched on a regular basis is okay. Minecraft hardcore servers is a basic human right. It is central to human dignity. And one of many things that we have realized is you can't deny kids fully human dignity after which count on them to abruptly at age 18, be able to train their full rights in a way that can work. It would not work that means.

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How do the children themselves feel about this? What do you get from them?

Zach: Effectively, there's two issues I would like to touch on there. I think an concept that I might love for us all to start out speaking about is this concept of digital civic obligation. And I believe it is the identical factor the place you not only obtain being a client but you give too. You make your personal websites, you modify the web, you modify expertise. You're not only a consumer, you're a creator too.

By way of what Hack Clubbers feel about faculty surveillance. Hack Clubbers feel like they reside in an Orwellian surveillance state because you spend your time on networks that are surveilled, the place in case you try to poke prod, bad things may happen. And I feel positively Hack Clubbers feel like they can't interact with their college on issues like these as a result of I feel a variety of school administrators will not be technical sufficient to know what's happening. When you flag the improper factor, you could very easily find yourself dealing with disciplinary action or something like that. I had this happen when I was a teenager, I installed a VPN on my laptop computer, what I dropped at my faculty, I used to be the one person at my faculty that I knew on a laptop computer and I used to be pulled apart by the vice principal as a result of they have been like, "Why are you hacking our college?"

Danny: And I think it undermines belief. Initially, you set the stakes. That the administration is variety of saying, "We do not really belief you so we're going to place this software program." But then when children who're curious and interested on this look into it, they notice that they're also being lied to.

Zach: And I feel it really undermines these values that we talk a lot about, like curiosity, like tinkering, like making an attempt issues out, determining who you want to be by way of attempting to make issues. When there is a consequence to these actions, which is the case when you've gotten your net activity filtered and then robotically reported in some circumstances, it implies that abruptly making an attempt to be taught there may very well be a consequence in case you Google the fallacious factor. And I feel that in a place the place we care so much about independence and where we care lots about serving to individuals become their very own particular person agents of change, I think that our digital environments that we create for younger people inside of schools, I feel kind of does the opposite. It tells you, "No, you're a client, keep watching Netflix, do not mess along with your pc."

Cindy: I feel this actually hearkens back to the beginning of the Digital Frontier Foundation, the place we had legislation enforcement coming in and doing raids on a whole lot of children who had been poking round on the early internet, trying to figure out how issues work. This is absolutely one of many founding tales of EFF. And the flip aspect of it's a few of those same children or youngsters who have been pals with them, by the identify of possibly Wozniak or other things, they went on to develop among the instruments and the things that we love essentially the most. We're not simply doing something unfair to these children, we may be quick circuiting the following technology of people who find themselves going to convey us a greater world.

Cindy: Let's talk about a few of Hack Membership's successes. And by the best way, I simply wish to provide you with extra love for reclaiming the time period hack for doing one thing good. That is being a hacker, once more, I am an old-fashioned web individual, being a hacker was being any person who dug in deeply, tried to determine issues out. And it may need been not the prettiest thing however truly made things work. And I think that in some way we have misplaced that sense of the word and it's grow to be synonymous with evil. And so I really admire you reclaiming it and lifting it up however that's simply my little soapbox moment. But let's hear some success tales. What is Hack Membership doing for youths? What are you seeing?

Zach: Oh, it is unimaginable. I don't know. There's a Hack Clubbers who wrote an entire sport engine in Rust. I used to be speaking with Hack Clubbers who constructed a complete clone of Minecraft in Rust where they made the OpenGL calls themselves. But the thing that I feel is actually necessary about Hack Club for people who are in it past simply the coding and past the socialization is I believe that for Hack Clubbers, coding is not just a strategy to make video video games or make a private website or I do not know, get a job sooner or later. It's a form of self expression. It's that is a place the place I might be myself, where I can get what's in my head out on paper. It is a thing that offers you energy and an agency as a young particular person that you don't actually find in class and don't really discover in different activities or around your life. And it's a spot the place it doesn't really matter the place you're from or what you appear to be or who your mother and father are, how much cash you make. It's this is a spot the place people will deal with you want an actual person with real respect. And I do know for me, when I was a younger particular person, I used to be actually desperate for that.

Danny: As you talked about this, I used to be pondering in regards to the early days of the net and the web. And i out of the blue thought to myself, it is not just Hack Membership, it is not just these places the place children gather, I believe an enormous chunk of the positive sides of the web were built by kids or built by teenagers. I consider Aaron Swartz, who very close to EFF. Me and Cindy knew him nicely.

Zach: Wow. He is a personal hero of mine

Danny: Proper. And when we first met Aaron, he was hacking on the basic code that was constructing the internet with Tim Berners-Lee at, I think he will need to have been 14. Tons of people begin out at that age. And the opposite thing is and I believe this goes to the guts of what we attempt to talk about on this present is you're modeling the positive future of the internet. And it is driven by folks wanting to construct that, wanting to construct that for themselves. Do the youngsters you speak to, do they suppose about this extra broadly?

Zach: I think coding is the glue. It is the factor that brings everybody together however the magic is in all the why questions. Because Hack Club's an area the place individuals ask questions like, who am I? Who do I wish to be? What is that this world I reside in? What's my relationship with it? And I feel that we've got this idea of hacker buddies where if I think if Hack Club does one thing, we wish to try to help younger people find other hacker mates as a result of when you've gotten someone else like you, that shares your curiosity at a very deep degree, it means that while you explore those questions, you may go much deeper and you're feeling heard in a means that you might not if you do not have mates that are as into a few of these things as you.

Cindy: Hack Club's not the just one. There are applications like this all around the globe which are actually particularly aimed toward reaching communities who mainly weren't the main focus of form of the first generation of hacker children. In case you'd discuss that too, I would find it irresistible.

Zach: For me growing up and I feel that is built into Hack Membership's DNA, I definitely felt like a toddler of the world or a baby of the internet as a result of the individuals I used to be having so many of these formative conversations with online have been from all around the world from all backgrounds. And I think that that is just so extremely important.

Certainly one of my favourite things about Hack Membership is since we do not this design a playbook that then everyone runs, each Hack Club at each college is totally different. And in consequence, while you go to a Hack Club in Kerala India, it is dramatically different than a Hack Club in America. It is totally different. It makes extra sense for native context.

And as a result, while you walk into a few of these clubs from around the globe, the local leaders have really asked, "What makes the most sense for me? What makes the most sense for different individuals like me?" And I feel that, particularly in areas the place individuals feel marginalized or they do not see a house for themselves or they don't have function fashions in the identical means that some extra traditional of us may need, my hope is that with Hack Membership, that they can build the home that they've always been on the lookout for. And I believe that the web permits younger people to try this in a approach that just wasn't potential before.

Danny: That is such a cliche, but this is actually the subsequent generation. That is the long run. Do you've any predictions about the way forward for the web? What are the issues that they're building which can be missing in the prevailing system?

Zach: We face some of the most important challenges over the subsequent 50 years that humanity's ever had to reckon with. And I believe that we want a generation of young individuals who not solely have actual arduous skills, they'll really do one thing from a builder perspective around these big challenges but they even have the precise mindset and community to think a bit bit differently.

The mindset is that if there's an issue, what does it take to fix it? It's extremely actionable somewhat than feel, we're born with issues and we will have to deal with these problems. There's nothing that we can do about it. It's a very empowered mindset.

They form of see know-how not as an end in itself however as a tool for every single factor needed to construct amazing communities in this new world that we reside in.

Cindy: Such a great vision. Let's leap to that future. What does it look like if we get this proper? If we unleash all the Hack Clubbers and the opposite kids who are using technology and envisioning applied sciences to build a better world than the one we've got now. Take us to that world. What does it appear to be?

Zach: I do not know if this is just too big of an idea however I want to stay in a world where there is a hacker president. But in additional concrete phrases, I would like all of the progressive, thrilling stuff to be open source because it signifies that abruptly the people who can engage with it, isn't everybody who can afford to buy a license to their firm however it's each single individual that has technical information in your complete world and internet access. I want to reside in a world where the constraints of location, of locale are smaller than ever before.

Cindy: And what I actually love about this vision is that it really is a couple of motion. I feel one of the things that distresses me concerning the stories popping out of the early web is they all appear to 1 man who did one factor. And honestly, they're almost all guys and guys of a certain coloration. And I think that this way of storytelling, I am undecided it was really all that true for those of us who lived by means of it but what I hear you is admittedly, really doubling down on this idea that it takes a movement, that people move collectively and that this type of single individual narrative is not really the narrative of excellent change and that you're working to strive to construct communities and networks in order that we get previous that.

Zach: And I believe that one factor that basically helps with that is the open source motion and the open supply neighborhood because it implies that if you're coding on actual projects, the connection between you and the particular person that wrote that line of code is closer than ever. And you see, wow, projects like Ruby on Rails, they weren't built by one person. They were constructed by 2,000 folks. And you see that similar issues with huge tasks, like Firefox, massive initiatives like Rust, these are things that take tribes.

Cindy: Yeah. And let's simply double down, we bought to get those obstacles out of the best way. Youngsters want to have the ability to entry all the information. They need to be able to proper click on their Chromebooks and view supply and all of these things. And the role of that, which appears like funny little geeky things, it's central to how we get from right here to there.

Danny: Nicely, thanks a lot, Zach. I sit up for not only seeing what you need to provide you with in the future but seeing the following 20 years of what these children produce.

Zach: Thanks a lot for having me right here. It is such an honor to be in a position to affix you in this conversation. It is such an honor for Hack Clubbers to have their story and their struggles be part of the dialog and for the work you are doing. Thanks, thank you, thanks, thanks, thanks.

Cindy: It goes both methods, Zach. You might be elevating the next era of EFF members, most likely EFF staffers and possibly congressional and administrative staffers who've this in their bones. And that is the world. Just understanding how technology works is not enough. And I feel that is really clear from what you are doing is you are constructing networks and you are building moral and responsible frameworks for a way do you be anyone who understands about tech however is using it for good?

Cindy: Zach, thanks a lot. This has been so fun talking to you and so inspiring. I agree, we started off and we had been speaking about the issues that you are having and they're tremendously important. And of course that's where EFF's rubber meets the highway is trying to get these obstacles out of the way. But we ended in such a cheerful place by way of this future. So thank you.

Cindy: I so appreciate listening to about optimistic, younger individuals finding, using and constructing the instruments to make things better and the function that the web is taking part in in both helping them join, and serving to them actually build this into a motion that is going to construct the instruments that are going to make a greater web in the future.

Danny: So much of this discuss of the surveillance and the censorship of youngsters is wrapped this idea of maintaining them secure. After which Zach who's caught within the middle. He goes to the websites of these makers of filter know-how where they're actually claiming to be stopping faculty shootings and but all of us need kids to be safe however I do question whether or not this is basically safety when Zack talks to the actual Hack Clubbers and they are saying that they really feel like they're in an Orwellian surveillance state, that's not security.

Cindy: No, no. And I feel school directors, it's just clear that they're outgunned right here and we'd like to actually assist them in recognizing what kids actually must grow. I additionally really appreciated him talking about coding as a type of self expression. Clearly that is close to and dear to my coronary heart as EFF started with the concept code is speech but additionally that this self expression is not just in a constitutional sense. It is about a place the place I could be myself, where I can really be the true me and all of that popping out of the idea that persons are studying how to code, this as a means of self expression it is simply heartening.

Danny: You educate children how to specific themselves, whether or not it is code and speaking up after which they get to be a part of that debate. And I think they're an essential a part of that debate.

Cindy: One of the things that I actually beloved about the way Zach talked concerning the group he is building is it is being constructed by teenagers for teenagers, maybe for the rest of us too. But recognizing that this neighborhood needs to be designing the technologies and creating the technologies that this community wants. That the place it needs to be centered. It reminds me of the conversation we had with Matt Mitchell, the place he talked about communities needing to build the tools that they need, whether they're in, where he was in Harlem or in a rural area or somewhere around the world. This group empowerment works not solely in geography but additionally in the distinction between being a child and being an grownup.

Cindy: Effectively, because of our visitor, Zach Latta, for sharing his optimism and the work that he's doing. If you would like to start a Hack Club or donate to assist help them, they're at hackclub.com. There are related organizations all throughout the country and all the world over. But supporting this work, I feel is tremendously important to construct a future web that all of us want to dwell in.

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