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Podcast Episode: Hack To The Future
Like many younger people, Zach Latta went to a faculty that didn't teach any computer courses. But that didn’t cease him from studying every little thing he could about them and turning into a programmer at a younger age. After moving to San Francisco, Zach founded Hack Club, a nonprofit network of highschool coding clubs world wide, to assist different college students find the training and neighborhood that he wished he had as a teenager.

This week on our podcast, we speak to Zach in regards to the importance of student entry to an open internet, why studying to code can increase fairness, and the way faculty's on-line safety and the law usually stand in the way in which. We’ll additionally focus on how laptop training might help create the following generation of makers and builders that we want to unravel a few of society’s greatest problems.

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On this episode, you’ll find out about:

Why colleges block some harmless academic content and coding resources, from frequent sites like Github to “view source” features on college-issued devices
How locked down digital methods in schools stop young individuals from learning about coding and computers, and create fairness points for college students who're already marginalized
How coding and “hack” clubs can empower young people, help them study self-expression, and find community
How pervasive faculty surveillance undermines trust and limits people’s means to exercise their rights when they are older
How younger people’s curiosity for the way things work on-line has helped convey us among the technology we love most

Zach Latta is the government director of Hack Membership, a national nonprofit connecting over 14,000 younger folks to help them create and take part in coding clubs, hackathons, and workshops all over the world. He's a Forbes 30 Underneath 30 recipient and a Thiel Fellow.

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Resources

Coders’ Rights

Coders’ Rights Challenge
Coders’ Rights Mission Reverse Engineering FAQ

Students’ Rights and Surveillance

Student Privacy
Roseville City School District Embraces Chromebooks, But At What Cost?
Fewer Assets, Fewer Choices: A school Administrator in Indiana Works to guard Pupil Privateness
Legal Overview: Key Legal guidelines Related to the Safety of Scholar Data
Proctoring Apps Subject Students to Pointless Surveillance
Student Privacy and the Struggle to maintain Spying Out of Colleges: Year in Assessment 2020

Censorship Requires Surveillance

For those who Construct It, They will Come: Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship World wide
Understanding and Circumventing Community Censorship

Hack Membership

Map of Hack Clubs worldwide
Mirror (bulCkcaH.com)

Transcript:

Zach: I grew up near Los Angeles, each my parents were social workers and rising up, I went to public schools that most colleges in America did not educate any pc classes. And for me, as a younger person, I simply felt like, oh my God, if solely I may figure out how these magical devices work, this is where the secrets and techniques of the universe lie. But it was always a solitary exercise for me.

As a teenager I used to be very lonely and that culminated for me, I ended up dropping out of highschool after my freshman 12 months when I used to be sixteen and i moved to San Francisco to turn out to be a programmer. And after working at a pair startups to get some cash and put collectively some savings, I started Hack Club to try to create the form of place and community that I so desperately wished I had when I used to be a teenager.

Cindy: That is Zach Latta. He is the founder of Hack Club and he is our guest at the moment. Zach goes to tell us about how groups like Hack Club are educating youngsters easy methods to hack and in any other case be creators online and the way that's one of the ways we may also help shift them from being simply passive consumers of the digital world to truly charting their very own futures.

Danny: We're going to talk to Zach about scholar rights to an open web, why studying to code can enhance fairness and what happens when a college's online security and the legislation get in the way of all that.

Cindy: I am Cindy Cohn, EFF's government director.

Danny: And I am Danny O'Brien, special advisor to the EFF. Welcome to How to repair the Internet, a podcast of the Digital Frontier Basis, where we bring you big ideas, solutions, and hope that we can repair the most important issues we face on-line.

Cindy: Zach, thanks a lot for becoming a member of us.

Zach: Properly, thanks a lot for having me. I'm so honored. Rising up as a teenager, I simply liked the EFF and all the pieces the organization stood for. It is an actual honor to be with all of you here today.

Cindy: Oh, terrific.

You reached out to EFF for assist and that's how we ended up actually assembly you. Can you discuss to us about what led you to do this?

Zach: We're a network of teenagers all across the world who love building issues with computer systems and run communities to try and bring teenagers together, to make issues with expertise. And nearly every month, we've got a significant drawback where a school district simply blocks Hack Membership. And there is no such thing as a worse call to get from a Hack Club, they're saying, "All proper, I got 20 people in the room, we're making an attempt to get began, hackclub.com is blocked, github.com is blocked, Stack Overflow is blocked, how can we presumably run our meeting from here?"

Due to this problem, form of in a bit of frustration. With some Hack Clubbers I wrote a letter to EFF assist line, simply saying, "Hey, is there any approach that EFF is perhaps ready to assist us with this? As a result of that is beginning to be a thing where it's not like one college has this downside, it's like now we have dozens of schools around America where just every little thing's blocked."

Danny: Just to be clear right here, this isn't just you being blocked, that is major informational assets, right?

Zach: Oh yeah. It is loopy. If you are a young one who desires to find out about computer systems and desires to learn how to code, you kind of need the internet to do that. And also you rely on sites like Google, like GitHub, like Stack Overflow, like GitLab. There's a whole ecosystem that every single skilled developer depends on every single day and at a big percentage of faculties around America, all of these resources are simply blocked, including hackclub.com.

We run a club locally right here in Vermont, where we check out all of our stuff earlier than we put it online and open supply it. And I used to be talking with a Hack Clubber there where actually each single website in addition to college classroom is blocked on their college pc. And this Hack Clubber is not from a household with means so the only computer that they've entry to at dwelling is their school issued Chromebook. And in consequence, he is six weeks behind all people else on this membership and nonetheless hasn't gotten previous the preliminary hurdle of constructing early websites.

Danny: Obviously what you might be doing in Hack Membership should be extraordinarily subversive to be blocked in this way. What are you doing? What are these kids studying or failing to learn as a result of they cannot really access to the web?

Zach: What Hack Club's all about is bringing teenagers collectively who love computers and need to learn how to make issues with computer systems. Whether or not it is building a website or making a video sport or perhaps even beginning an area enterprise and most schools do not offer any curriculum or help around that. What Hack Clubbers are doing is in their meetings, they're normally attempting to be taught HTML, CSS, JavaScript or later on, more superior languages like Rust or not too long ago there's a big movement around Zig, which is a brand new standard language. And when you're trying to run the assembly and produce people to github.com, the place we have now a whole lot of our assets, when it's blocked, it's the assembly's dead on arrival. I do not suppose school administrators are bad individuals. I come from a long line of teachers and I think that individuals in colleges are doing their greatest but are probably afraid around things like legal responsibility.

Cindy: Their incentive is just to guantee that children don't ever get to something that might presumably be problematic. They do not have an incentive to make sure youngsters can truly study a few of these abilities. And so, when you outsource this to folks whose enterprise it is to block, they're going to block as opposed to having a thoughtful course of by which you figure out what do college students really need to learn? And I believe you're totally proper, in the case of pc programming and understanding how computers work, all people learned this by going out onto the web and discovering the locations where other persons are sharing this and one thing like GitHub, an enormous percentage of what truly runs the web is there. It is slightly loopy

Danny: Once we teach people to learn and write, we're not anticipating them to be English literature students or novelists. We're giving them the tools to work in society. When now we have studying, writing and algorithms or whatever, it is in order that they'll do what they wish to do in society and they'll build society with an understanding of the things round them.

Zach: While you realize that the world around us is built by other human beings, you realize you might be one of those human beings. I think that starting 10 years ago, there was this huge shift in education that occurred. And for some cause still isn't really part of the dialogue round what good classrooms or good learning environments appears like, which is that each single younger person on the planet started having these magical gadgets of their pockets, which had all of human history and knowledge on them. These things are higher than the Library of Alexandria. This is it. It does not get higher. And I feel that so much of public education programs around the globe are designed to solve entry issues. How can we simply simply get entry to information in front of everyone and to them?: And we've constructed this incredible distribution mechanism. It's actually remarkable however I feel the new challenge of learning in the 21st century is one in all motivation. How can we get folks to care? How do we get individuals to make use of this? And I think that once we lock down digital techniques round younger people, we sort of inform them, "Do not poke and prod, don't strive issues, don't exit of your method to go down a path that we haven't pre-permitted for you." And I feel that that type of kills curiosity. It's really counterproductive.

Danny: How much do you consider it is because you are known as Hack Membership? How much do you think is because individuals affiliate that with malicious hacking?

Zach: I believe it's maybe a small component. Even though I believe Hack Membership as a corporation is just a little subversive in nature. We work immediately with teenagers. We operate sort of outside of the system, in some regards. The schools that Hack Clubs are in, normally the varsity loves Hack Membership because it is teenagers at their faculty who are getting together in a approach that means that they're actually engaged of their learning. And we are one in all lots of of teams that run into these problems each single day. And I believe this idea of scholars' rights, particularly on the internet, as a result of it is so new, it's so technical, only for some cause isn't talked about at all, despite the fact that it impacts young people greater than nearly every other decision made at their school.

Cindy: We've been talking quite a bit about blocking access to info, blocking web sites and things like that however I feel that you've got seen issues with the devices themselves, haven't you?

Zach: Yeah. Increasingly Hack Clubbers, the one machine they have entry to both in conferences or at house is a college issued Chromebook. And one of the choices on college issued Chromebooks is to disable right clicking and clicking examine element. And also you can't learn to program websites without being ready to do that. And that is such a real problem that we've had to construct our own debugger to help with that.

Danny: Just to be clear right here, once you say proper click on, that is the factor where you will have the second mouse button and then folks all the time stumble on this by accident and wonder what the heck have I finished? Since you click and then there's slightly menu. It is for coders or for someone who desires to type of go a bit deeper or after all save an image. It's the sort of metaphor for, okay, let's go a little bit bit deeper into what we're looking at here. And that doesn’t… children cannot try this on these lockdown computers?

Zach: Yeah. It is a system security setting. You'll be able to flip off inspecting aspect, which means that young individuals in Hack Membership conferences who don't have a faculty issued pc can view the source code of any website that they go to. And if you do not have the resources at house to have one and also you only the college issued pc, you simply can't.

Danny: Everybody in the early internet realized how to construct the rest of the early web by view source. There was just a little pull down menu.

Cindy: Completely.

Danny: And when you saw a web page that you just appreciated, you could possibly take a look at the unique HTML after which cut and paste it and mess round with it. And you're saying that youngsters simply should take what they've given now?

Zach: You good click and it's not an possibility.

Danny: Holy cow.

Cindy: And this is a setting. Chromebooks do not come like this essentially but they offer the directors the power to lock children out of this knowledge. It's simply, it is onerous to think about the considering that leads you to determine that we'll deny kids knowledge in class.

Danny: And simply me and Zach and Cindy and now are vibrating within the studio. You can't actually see this. One of many things so upsetting about this is that the surroundings, the mouse, the windowing setting that you are using was specifically built to be an academic surroundings that you may discover and be taught. It's an absolute perversion of the very fundamental means these things had been developed and supposed to make use of. It is like for those who gave someone a painting set however no paints.

Cindy: The fairness issues listed here are just tremendous. As a result of we know that one in all the great issues is that we're now giving kids devices that they'll use to help themselves learn. However if they're locked down devices and that's the wealthy kids have another system that they can use however the poor kids end up with only a lockdown system, a poor machine for poor folks actually it sounds like.

Zach: While you look on the advertising for a few of these faculty filter firms, the advertising is like, we prevent scholar suicide. And it is, we forestall college shootings. What a strange connection to attract. After which the things they do to be in a position to attract that connection just isn't only do they filter what web sites you are in a position to go to however they actually scan every single electronic mail you ship from your school account, every single IM that you simply send out of your school account, they scan the belongings you do on web sites. For this one district that we're in, in Georgia, whenever you go to an internet site that is blocked, not solely does it say, "This webpage's blocked, you are not allowed to come here," however it actually says that there's a safety challenge along with your computer and that the way in which repair it is to download this intermediate SSL certificate, install it in your laptop, set as a trusted source and what that means is it allows the school to man in the center all of your encrypted traffic.

Danny: Right. That's like your undermining the safety of that computer. And I feel this is really essential to emphasise. One of the things that we always talk about at EFF is you can't do censorship with out surveillance. You could have to be able to see what individuals are looking at to dam it. And what meaning for these kind of programs is, as you say, simply to be clear, what that person is being asked to obtain there's the grasp key to all of their communications on that laptop, from their financial particulars to the whole lot.

Cindy: Yes. And it's an issue that predates COVID nevertheless it actually obtained supercharged during COVID, this concept that fixed surveillance is what you must tolerate if you're a student. And that's dangerous first as a result of that is dangerous for teenagers but it is also harmful because we're creating a generation of youngsters who assume that being watched on a regular basis is okay. This can be a fundamental human right. It's central to human dignity. And one of the issues that we've discovered is you can't deny children completely 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 does not work that means.

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

Zach: Nicely, there's two issues I would like to touch on there. I think an concept that I might love for us all to begin talking about is this idea of digital civic responsibility. And I think it's the identical thing where you not solely obtain being a shopper but you give too. You make your own websites, you modify the web, you modify expertise. You're not only a client, you are a creator too.

By way of what Hack Clubbers really feel about college surveillance. Hack Clubbers really feel like they reside in an Orwellian surveillance state since you spend your time on networks that are surveilled, the place in case you attempt to poke prod, bad issues could happen. And I think definitely Hack Clubbers really feel like they cannot work together with their college on points like these because I think loads of college directors should not technical sufficient to understand what's occurring. When you flag the incorrect thing, you may very simply end up dealing with disciplinary motion or something like that. I had this occur when I used to be a teenager, I installed a VPN on my laptop computer, what I brought to my school, I used to be the only particular person at my school that I knew on a laptop computer and I used to be pulled apart by the vice principal because they were like, "Why are you hacking our school?"

Danny: And I feel it undermines belief. Initially, you set the stakes. That the administration is type of claiming, "We do not really belief you so we're going to put this software." However then when children who are curious and involved in 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 so much about, like curiosity, like tinkering, like attempting issues out, determining who you need to be by way of trying to make things. When there's a consequence to these actions, which is the case when you have got your web exercise filtered and then robotically reported in some circumstances, it means that all of a sudden trying to learn there could possibly be a consequence if you Google the improper thing. And I feel that in a spot the place we care too much about independence and the place we care too much about helping individuals turn into their own particular person agents of change, I feel that our digital environments that we create for younger folks inside of schools, I feel kind of does the alternative. It tells you, "No, you're a consumer, keep watching Netflix, do not mess together with your laptop."

Cindy: I think this actually hearkens back to the beginning of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where we had regulation enforcement coming in and doing raids on numerous youngsters who have been poking round on the early internet, trying to figure out how things work. This is admittedly one of the founding stories of EFF. And the flip side of it is a few of those self same children or youngsters who were mates with them, by the name of perhaps Wozniak or other things, they went on to develop a number of the instruments and the issues that we love the most. We're not just doing something unfair to these youngsters, we could also be brief circuiting the following technology of people who find themselves going to bring us a greater world.

Cindy: Let's talk about some of Hack Membership's successes. And by the way in which, I just want to offer you further 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 person, being a hacker was being any individual who dug in deeply, tried to figure issues out. And it might have been not the prettiest thing but really made things work. And I believe that in some way we have lost that sense of the word and it is turn into synonymous with evil. And so I really admire you reclaiming it and lifting it up but that's just my little soapbox moment. But let's hear some success tales. What's Hack Membership doing for kids? What are you seeing?

Zach: Oh, it's unimaginable. I don't know. There is a Hack Clubbers who wrote an entire game 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 admittedly necessary about Hack Membership for people who find themselves in it beyond simply the coding and beyond the socialization is I believe that for Hack Clubbers, coding is not only a technique to make video video games or make a private webpage or I don't know, get a job sooner or later. It's a type of self expression. It's that is a place the place I will be myself, the place I can get what is in my head out on paper. It is a thing that gives you power and an agency as a younger individual that you do not really find in school and don't actually discover in different actions or round your life. And it's a spot the place it would not actually matter the place you are from or what you look like or who your mother and father are, how a lot money you make. It's this is a spot the place individuals will treat you like an actual individual with real respect. And I know for me, when I was a young person, I was really determined for that.

Danny: As you talked about this, I was considering concerning the early days of the web and the internet. And i suddenly thought to myself, it is not simply Hack Club, it isn't simply these locations where youngsters collect, I feel an enormous chunk of the constructive sides of the internet have been built by youngsters or constructed by teenagers. I consider Aaron Swartz, who very close to EFF. Me and Cindy knew him properly.

Zach: Wow. He is a private hero of mine

Danny: Right. And when we first met Aaron, he was hacking on the basic code that was constructing the internet with Tim Berners-Lee at, I believe he must have been 14. Tons of individuals start out at that age. And the opposite factor is and I believe this goes to the center of what we attempt to discuss on this show is you're modeling the constructive future of the web. And it is pushed by folks wanting to build that, wanting to build that for themselves. Do the children you talk to, do they assume about this more widely?

Zach: I believe coding is the glue. It is the thing that brings everybody together but the magic is in all the why questions. As a result of Hack Club's an area the place people ask questions like, who am I? Who do I want to be? What is that this world I stay in? What is my relationship with it? And I feel that we have this concept of hacker pals the place if I think if Hack Club does one factor, we want to try and help younger folks discover other hacker friends because when you have someone else such as you, that shares your curiosity at a really deep level, it means that when you discover these questions, you may go a lot deeper and you feel heard in a way that you just won't if you do not have buddies which can be as into some of this stuff as you.

Cindy: Hack Membership's not the just one. There are packages like this all all over the world which are actually particularly aimed at reaching communities who basically weren't the main focus of form of the primary era of hacker children. For those who'd discuss that too, I'd like it.

Zach: For me rising up and I think that is built into Hack Club's DNA, I undoubtedly felt like a child of the world or a child of the internet because the folks I was having so many of these formative conversations with online were from everywhere in the world from all backgrounds. And I think that that is simply so incredibly important.

Certainly one of my favourite things about Hack Club is since we do not this design a playbook that then everyone runs, every Hack Club at every school is totally different. And because of this, while you go to a Hack Membership in Kerala India, it is dramatically totally different than a Hack Membership in America. It's totally different. It makes more sense for local context.

And in consequence, if you walk into some of these clubs from around the world, the local leaders have really asked, "What makes essentially the most sense for me? What makes the most sense for other folks like me?" And I think that, notably in areas where people really feel marginalized or they do not see a house for themselves or they don't have function models in the same method that some extra conventional of us may need, my hope is that with Hack Membership, that they will construct the house that they've always been searching for. And I feel that the web allows young people to do this in a method that just wasn't doable earlier than.

Danny: That is such a cliche, however this is actually the subsequent generation. That is the longer term. Do you've gotten any predictions about the future of the web? What are the issues that they are building which can be lacking in the prevailing system?

Zach: We face a few of the largest challenges over the next 50 years that humanity's ever needed to reckon with. And I feel that we'd like a era of younger people who not solely have actual arduous abilities, they can really do something from a builder perspective around these large challenges however they also have the correct mindset and community to assume a bit bit in a different way.

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

They sort of see know-how not as an finish in itself but as a device for every single factor needed to build amazing communities in this new world that we stay in.

Cindy: Such a superb vision. Let's jump to that future. What does it look like if we get this proper? If we unleash all the Hack Clubbers and the opposite youngsters who're utilizing expertise and envisioning applied sciences to construct a greater world than the one we now have now. Take us to that world. What does it appear to be?

Zach: I do not know if this is too huge of an idea however I wish to dwell in a world the place there is a hacker president. However in more concrete phrases, I want all the modern, thrilling stuff to be open supply as a result of it signifies that immediately the people who can engage with it, isn't everyone who can afford to purchase a license to their firm however it's each single particular person that has technical knowledge in the complete world and web entry. I need to dwell in a world the place the constraints of location, of locale are smaller than ever before.

Cindy: And what I really love about this vision is that it really is about a motion. I feel one of many issues that distresses me in regards to the tales coming out of the early internet is they all appear to 1 guy who did one thing. And actually, they're virtually all guys and guys of a sure color. And I believe that this fashion of storytelling, I'm not sure it was truly all that true for these of us who lived through it however what I hear you is really, really doubling down on this idea that it takes a motion, that folks transfer together and that this type of single individual narrative is not truly the narrative of excellent change and that you are working to attempt to build communities and networks in order that we get past that.

Zach: And I feel that one thing that really helps with that's the open supply movement and the open supply community as a result of it signifies that in case you are coding on real tasks, the connection between you and the particular person that wrote that line of code is nearer than ever. And also you see, wow, initiatives like Ruby on Rails, they weren't built by one individual. They have been constructed by 2,000 folks. And also you see that similar things with big tasks, like Firefox, huge tasks like Rust, these are issues that take tribes.

Cindy: Yeah. And let's simply double down, we received to get these obstacles out of the best way. Kids need to be able to access all the data. They want to be able to proper click on their Chromebooks and view supply and all of these things. And the function of that, which seems like funny little geeky issues, it's central to how we get from right here to there.

Danny: Well, thanks a lot, Zach. I stay up for not solely seeing what you have to provide you with in the future but seeing the subsequent 20 years of what these kids produce.

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

Cindy: It goes both ways, Zach. You are elevating the following technology of EFF members, in all probability EFF staffers and perhaps congressional and administrative staffers who have this in their bones. And that is the world. Simply understanding how know-how works isn't sufficient. And I believe that is really clear from what you're doing is you're building networks and you're constructing ethical and accountable frameworks for how do you be any individual who understands about tech but is using it for good?

Cindy: Zach, thanks a lot. This has been so fun speaking to you and so inspiring. I agree, we began off and we were speaking about the issues that you are having they usually're tremendously essential. And naturally that's where EFF's rubber meets the highway is attempting to get these obstacles out of the best way. But we ended in such a contented place when it comes to this future. So thanks.

Cindy: I so admire hearing about optimistic, younger individuals finding, using and constructing the instruments to make issues better and the role that the internet is playing in each serving to them join, and helping them really build this right into a movement that is going to construct the instruments which are going to make a greater internet sooner or later.

Danny: A lot of this discuss of the surveillance and the censorship of youngsters is wrapped this concept of protecting them protected. And then Zach who's caught in the center. He goes to the web sites of those makers of filter know-how where they're actually claiming to be preventing school shootings and yet all of us need children to be safe however I do question whether or not this is really security when Zack talks to the precise Hack Clubbers and they say that they really feel like they're in an Orwellian surveillance state, that's not safety.

Cindy: No, no. And I feel college directors, it's simply clear that they are outgunned right here and we'd like to really assist them in recognizing what children actually have to develop. I additionally really appreciated him talking about coding as a form of self expression. Obviously that's near and dear to my heart as EFF began with the idea that code is speech but also that this self expression isn't simply in a constitutional sense. It's about a spot the place I will be myself, where I can actually be the real me and all of that coming out of the idea that individuals are learning easy methods to code, this as a means of self expression it's just heartening.

Danny: You teach children how to specific themselves, whether it's code and speaking up and then they get to be part of that debate. And I feel they're an necessary part of that debate.

Cindy: One of the things that I actually cherished about the way Zach talked in regards to the community he is constructing is it is being constructed by teenagers for teenagers, perhaps for the rest of us too. However recognizing that this group must be designing the applied sciences and creating the applied sciences that this community needs. That where it must be centered. It reminds me of the dialog we had with Matt Mitchell, the place he talked about communities needing to construct the tools that they want, whether they're in, the place he was in Harlem or in a rural area or someplace world wide. This group empowerment works not only in geography but in addition within the difference between being a kid and being an adult.

Cindy: Properly, thanks to our visitor, Zach Latta, for sharing his optimism and the work that he is doing. If PROXIMAL'S BLOG 'd like to start out a Hack Club or donate to assist support them, they're at hackclub.com. There are related organizations all across the nation and all across the world. However supporting this work, I believe is tremendously vital to construct a future internet that all of us want to live in.

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