Remember the Free and Open Internet? Tech journalist Bryan Lunduke does, and isn’t afraid to write about its demise one institutional capture at a time. We discuss having our hearts broken by our beloved Internet Archive; the Wikipedia Foundation’s shady dealings; the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s championing “the right for little children to look at porn on the internet”; and Mozilla’s “Feminist decolonial lgbtqia+ climate justice using AI event in Zambia.” Like any good journalists, we ask the tough questions: How do you get your name forbidden by ChatGPT? Who is more banned from conferences, Lunduke or Paley? Are we gonna have a free and open internet, or not? (Answer: not.) Whether you love nerds or merely are one, this entertaining episode will have you wanting to get offline more than ever.

Links:

The Lunduke Journal: Lunduke.com

ChatGPT Can Not Say “Bryan Lunduke”:

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/chatgpt-can-not-say-bryan-lunduke

The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

Our Kiwi Farms/Josh Moon episode: https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-107-how-the-internet-lost-its-backbone-with-joshua-moon/

Cori’s Kiwi Farms article:

https://corinnacohn.substack.com/p/the-world-should-not-need-kiwi-farms

Larry Sanger Speaks Out:

https://christopherrufo.com/p/larry-sanger-speaks-out

Women in tech: https://mimiandeunice.com/2018/11/07/women-in-tech/

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