175, Mallory Knodel on the collective origins and current maintenance of the Internet

On this edition of the program I speak with Mallory Knodel of the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, DC, on the collective origins and current maintenance of the Internet. Mallory, who was deeply involved in both the global justice movement and anti war movements, speaks about the ways that social media companies are a corporate version of open publishing platforms like Indymedia. This interview offers important counter weights to mainstream narratives around a conception that a handful of rich figures that run tech companies control the direction of the Internet, the present and future pathway of the Internet is very much way more open to possibilities that are broad and democratic in essence. Music on this edition is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Mallory Knodel is the CTO at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, DC. She is a member of the Internet Architecture Board, the co-chair of the Human Rights Protocol Considerations research group of the Internet Research Task Force, co-chair of the Stay Home Meet Only Online working group of the IETF and was a chairing advisor to the Freedom Online Coalition. Mallory takes a human rights, people-centred approach to technology implementation and cybersecurity policy advocacy, with a focus on encryption and censorship circumvention. Originally from the US, she has worked with grassroots organisations around the world. She has used free software throughout her professional career and considers herself a public interest technologist. She holds a BS in Physics and Mathematics and an MA in Science Education. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Tuesdays at 1pm. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays.