Podcast Episode: Hack To The Future

Like many young people, Zach Latta went to a college that didn't train any computer lessons. However that didn’t stop him from learning all the pieces he could about them and turning into a programmer at a young age. After shifting to San Francisco, Zach founded Hack Club, a nonprofit community of highschool coding clubs around the world, to help other college students discover the schooling and community that he wished he had as a teenager.

This week on our podcast, we discuss to Zach about the significance of scholar entry to an open internet, why studying to code can improve fairness, and the way school's on-line security and the regulation often stand in the way. We’ll additionally talk about how computer education can assist create the subsequent era of makers and builders that we'd like to solve a few of society’s largest problems.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about:

Why schools block some harmless instructional content and coding resources, from common sites like Github to “view source” capabilities on faculty-issued devices
How locked down digital techniques in colleges cease young folks from studying about coding and computer systems, and create equity points for college students who are already marginalized
How coding and “hack” clubs can empower young individuals, assist them be taught self-expression, and discover community
How pervasive faculty surveillance undermines trust and limits people’s means to exercise their rights when they are older
How young people’s curiosity for a way issues work online has helped bring us among the know-how we love most

Zach Latta is the govt director of Hack Membership, a national nonprofit connecting over 14,000 younger people to help them create and participate in coding clubs, hackathons, and workshops around the globe. He's a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient and a Thiel Fellow.

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Assets

Coders’ Rights

Coders’ Rights Project
Coders’ Rights Project Reverse Engineering FAQ

Students’ Rights and Surveillance

Pupil Privacy
Roseville Metropolis School District Embraces Chromebooks, However At What Price?
Fewer Sources, Fewer Decisions: A faculty Administrator in Indiana Works to guard Student Privacy
Legal Overview: Key Legal guidelines Relevant to the Safety of Student Knowledge
Proctoring Apps Topic College students to Unnecessary Surveillance
Student Privacy and the Fight to maintain Spying Out of Schools: 12 months in Assessment 2020

Censorship Requires Surveillance

When you Build It, They are going to Come: Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Elevated Surveillance and Censorship Around the globe
Understanding and Circumventing Network Censorship

Hack Membership

Map of Hack Clubs worldwide
Mirror (bulCkcaH.com)

Transcript:

Zach: I grew up close to Los Angeles, each my parents were social staff and growing up, I went to public schools that the majority colleges in America did not educate any pc courses. And for me, as a younger particular person, I just felt like, oh my God, if solely I may figure out how these magical devices work, that is the place the secrets of the universe lie. But it was at all times 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 year when I was sixteen and that i moved to San Francisco to turn into a programmer. And after working at a pair startups to get some money and put collectively some financial savings, I started Hack Membership to try and create the type of place and neighborhood that I so desperately wished I had when I used to be a teenager.

Cindy: That's Zach Latta. He's the founding father of Hack Membership and he is our guest right this moment. Zach is going to inform us about how teams like Hack Membership are teaching youngsters how to hack and in any other case be creators online and the way that is one of many ways we might help shift them from being simply passive consumers of the digital world to truly charting their own futures.

Danny: We're going to speak to Zach about pupil 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 in which of all that.

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

Danny: And I am Danny O'Brien, special advisor to the EFF. Welcome to How to fix the Web, a podcast of the Electronic Frontier Basis, where we bring you large ideas, options, and hope that we can fix the largest issues we face online.

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

Zach: Nicely, thank you a lot for having me. I am so honored. Growing up as a teenager, I just cherished the EFF and all the things the organization stood for. It's a real honor to be with all of you here in the present day.

Cindy: Oh, terrific.

You reached out to EFF for help and that is how we ended up really meeting you. Are you able to speak to us about what led you to do that?

Zach: We're a community of teenagers all internationally who love building issues with computer systems and run communities to try and bring teenagers collectively, to make issues with expertise. And virtually each month, we have now a serious drawback the place a school district simply blocks Hack Club. And there isn't any worse call to get from a Hack Club, they're saying, "All right, I received 20 folks in the room, we're attempting to get started, hackclub.com is blocked, github.com is blocked, Stack Overflow is blocked, how can we presumably run our meeting from here?"

Due to this drawback, form of in a bit of frustration. With some Hack Clubbers I wrote a letter to EFF support line, just saying, "Hey, is there any manner that EFF may be able to assist us with this? Because that is beginning to be a factor the place it isn't like one school has this downside, it is like we have dozens of schools around America where simply all the pieces's blocked."

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

Zach: Oh yeah. It is loopy. If you're a younger one who needs to find out about computer systems and needs to discover ways to code, you kind of want the web to try this. And also you rely on websites like Google, like GitHub, like Stack Overflow, like GitLab. There's a complete ecosystem that every single skilled developer depends on every single day and at a major proportion of schools round America, all of those sources are just blocked, including hackclub.com.

We run a membership regionally here in Vermont, the place we test out all of our stuff earlier than we put it online and open source it. And I used to be speaking with a Hack Clubber there the place literally every single website moreover faculty classroom is blocked on their faculty laptop. And this Hack Clubber is not from a family with means so the one pc that they have entry to at home is their college issued Chromebook. And as a result, he's six weeks behind all people else on this club and still hasn't gotten previous the initial hurdle of constructing early websites.

Danny: Obviously what you are doing in Hack Membership have to be extraordinarily subversive to be blocked in this manner. What are you doing? What are these youngsters studying or failing to study because they cannot really entry to the web?

Zach: What Hack Membership's all about is bringing teenagers collectively who love computer systems and wish to learn to make things with computer systems. Whether it's building a website or making a video game or possibly even beginning an area business and most schools do not supply any curriculum or support round that. What Hack Clubbers are doing is in their conferences, they're usually attempting to study HTML, CSS, JavaScript or later on, extra advanced languages like Rust or not too long ago there's a giant movement around Zig, which is a new popular language. And when you're trying to run the meeting and produce people to github.com, where we've numerous our assets, when it's blocked, it is the assembly's useless on arrival. I do not suppose college directors are dangerous people. I come from an extended line of teachers and I believe that individuals in schools are doing their greatest however are in all probability afraid around things like liability.

Cindy: Their incentive is just to guantee that youngsters don't ever get to anything that might probably be problematic. They do not have an incentive to verify kids can really study some of these abilities. And so, when you outsource this to individuals whose enterprise it's to block, they're going to block versus having a thoughtful course of by which you figure out what do students really need to study? And I believe you're totally proper, in relation to computer programming and understanding how computer systems work, everybody discovered this by going out onto the internet and finding the places where other individuals are sharing this and something like GitHub, a huge proportion of what really runs the internet is there. It's a bit of loopy

Danny: Once we train folks to read and write, we're not expecting them to be English literature college students or novelists. We're giving them the tools to work in society. When we've got reading, writing and algorithms or no matter, it is so that they will do what they wish to do in society and they can build society with an understanding of the issues around them.

Zach: When you understand that the world around us is built by other human beings, you realize you could possibly be one of those human beings. I believe that starting 10 years ago, there was this large shift in schooling that occurred. And for some cause still is not actually a part of the dialogue round what good classrooms or good studying environments looks like, which is that every single younger particular person on the planet began having these magical units of their pockets, which had all of human historical past and data on them. This stuff are higher than the Library of Alexandria. That is it. It does not get higher. And I feel that so much of public schooling techniques world wide are designed to resolve access problems. How will we just simply get entry to data in front of all people and to them?: And we've built this incredible distribution mechanism. It is actually remarkable but I think the new challenge of studying within the twenty first century is one in every of motivation. How do we get individuals to care? How can we get individuals to use this? And I feel that after we lock down digital programs around young individuals, we form of inform them, "Do not poke and prod, do not attempt issues, don't exit of your method to go down a path that we have not pre-authorized for you." And I believe that that sort of kills curiosity. It is really counterproductive.

Danny: How much do you think of it's because you're referred to as Hack Membership? How a lot do you think is because individuals affiliate that with malicious hacking?

Zach: I feel it's possibly a small component. Regardless that I believe Hack Membership as an organization is a little bit subversive in nature. We work instantly with teenagers. We operate form of exterior of the system, in some regards. The faculties that Hack Clubs are in, normally the varsity loves Hack Membership as a result of it is teenagers at their college who're getting collectively in a method meaning that they are actually engaged of their studying. And we're considered one of tons of of groups that run into these problems every single day. And I think this concept of scholars' rights, particularly on the web, because it is so new, it's so technical, just for some purpose isn't talked about in any respect, though it impacts younger individuals more than nearly every other resolution made at their faculty.

Cindy: We have been speaking lots about blocking entry to information, blocking web sites and issues like that but I think that you have seen issues with the units themselves, have not you?

Zach: Yeah. Increasingly Hack Clubbers, the only gadget they have entry to either in meetings or at residence is a faculty issued Chromebook. And one of many options on school issued Chromebooks is to disable right clicking and clicking examine component. And you cannot discover ways to program web sites with out being able to do 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 here, if you say right click, this is the factor the place you've the second mouse button after which people all the time stumble on this by accident and surprise what the heck have I performed? Because you click on after which there's a little menu. It is for coders or for someone who needs to form of go a bit deeper or after all save an image. It is the form of metaphor for, okay, let's go a bit bit deeper into what we're taking a look at here. And that doesn’t… youngsters cannot do that on these lockdown computers?

Zach: Yeah. It's a machine safety setting. You possibly can turn off inspecting factor, which signifies that young individuals in Hack Membership meetings who haven't got a college issued laptop can view the source code of any web site that they go to. And if you don't have the sources at house to have one and also you only the varsity issued pc, you just cannot.

Danny: All people within the early net realized how to build the remainder of the early internet by view supply. There was somewhat pull down menu.

Cindy: Absolutely.

Danny: And in case you noticed a web page that you just appreciated, you would look at the original HTML and then lower and paste it and mess round with it. And you're saying that children just need to take what they've given now?

Zach: You good click on and it is not an possibility.

Danny: Holy cow.

Cindy: And it is a setting. Chromebooks don't come like this essentially however they offer the administrators the flexibility to lock children out of this knowledge. It's simply, it is exhausting to imagine the thinking that leads you to resolve that we'll deny children information in class.

Danny: And just me and Zach and Cindy and now are vibrating in the studio. You cannot actually see this. One of the issues so upsetting about that is that the atmosphere, the mouse, the windowing environment that you're using was particularly constructed to be an academic surroundings that you possibly can explore and study. It is an absolute perversion of the very fundamental manner these items had been developed and intended to use. It is like in case you gave someone a painting set but no paints.

Cindy: The equity points here are simply tremendous. As a result of we all know that certainly one of the good issues is that we're now giving kids gadgets that they can use to help themselves be taught. However if they're locked down units and that's the rich children have another gadget that they'll use however the poor youngsters end up with just a lockdown gadget, a poor gadget for poor folks actually it feels like.

Zach: While you look on the advertising and marketing for some of these faculty filter firms, the marketing is like, we forestall pupil suicide. And it is, we forestall college shootings. What a wierd connection to attract. After which the issues they do to be in a position to draw that connection will not be solely do they filter what web sites you're in a position to go to however they really scan every single electronic mail you send out of your college account, every single IM that you ship from your college account, they scan the stuff you do on websites. For this one district that we're in, in Georgia, when you go to a web site that is blocked, not solely does it say, "This webpage's blocked, you're not allowed to return right here," however it actually says that there is a safety situation together with your pc and that the way in which repair it's to download this intermediate SSL certificate, set up it in your computer, set as a trusted source and what which means is it permits the college to man within the middle your entire encrypted traffic.

Danny: Proper. That's like your undermining the security of that pc. And I believe this is de facto necessary to emphasize. One of the things that we always talk about at EFF is you cannot do censorship with out surveillance. You have got to be able to see what persons are taking a look at to dam it. And what which means for these sort of methods is, as you say, just to be clear, what that particular person is being requested to download there is the grasp key to all of their communications on that pc, from their financial details to everything.

Cindy: Sure. And it is a problem that predates COVID however it really obtained supercharged during COVID, this idea that fixed surveillance is what it's important to tolerate if you're a pupil. And that is harmful first because that's harmful for teenagers however it's also harmful as a result of we're creating a generation of kids who suppose that being watched all the time is okay. This can be a basic human right. It's central to human dignity. And one of the things that we've realized is you cannot deny kids completely human dignity and then expect them to all of a sudden at age 18, be capable to exercise their full rights in a way that will work. It would not work that method.

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

Zach: Effectively, there's two things I would like to touch on there. I think an idea that I might love for us all to start out speaking about is this idea of digital civic responsibility. And I believe it's the identical thing where you not only obtain being a shopper but you give too. You make your individual websites, you modify the internet, you modify technology. You are not only a consumer, you are a creator too.

When it comes to what Hack Clubbers really feel about school surveillance. Hack Clubbers feel like they reside in an Orwellian surveillance state because you spend your time on networks which might be surveilled, the place in the event you try to poke prod, dangerous things may occur. And I feel positively Hack Clubbers really feel like they can't interact with their college on issues like these as a result of I believe lots of college directors are not technical sufficient to grasp what's going on. In the event you flag the flawed factor, you could possibly very easily end up dealing with disciplinary motion or one thing like that. I had this occur when I used to be a teenager, I put in a VPN on my laptop, what I dropped at my faculty, I used to be the one person at my school that I knew on a laptop and I used to be pulled apart by the vice principal because they had been like, "Why are you hacking our school?"

Danny: And I believe it undermines belief. To begin with, you set the stakes. That the administration is kind of saying, "We do not really belief you so we're going to put this software." But then when children who're curious and involved on this look into it, they realize that they are also being lied to.

Zach: And I think it actually undermines these values that we discuss so much about, like curiosity, like tinkering, like attempting issues out, determining who you want to be by way of trying to make things. When there's a consequence to these actions, which is the case when you might have your net exercise filtered after which automatically reported in some cases, it signifies that out of the blue attempting to learn there might be a consequence in the event you Google the fallacious factor. And I feel that in a place the place we care a lot about independence and the place we care so much about helping folks turn into their own particular person agents of change, I believe that our digital environments that we create for young folks inside of faculties, I believe kind of does the opposite. It tells you, "No, you're a shopper, keep watching Netflix, don't mess together with your laptop."

Cindy: I feel this really hearkens again to the start of the Electronic Frontier Basis, the place we had law enforcement coming in and doing raids on quite a lot of youngsters who were poking around on the early web, making an attempt to figure out how things work. This is de facto one of the founding stories of EFF. And the flip aspect of it is some of those self same kids or kids who had been buddies with them, by the name of possibly Wozniak or other things, they went on to develop among the tools and the issues that we love probably the most. We're not simply doing one thing unfair to these kids, we may be brief circuiting the following generation of people who are going to bring us a greater world.

Cindy: Let's speak about some of Hack Membership's successes. And by the best way, I just want to provide you with extra love for reclaiming the term hack for doing one thing good. This 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 things out. And it may need been not the prettiest thing however actually made things work. And I think that somehow we've lost that sense of the word and it's turn out to be synonymous with evil. And so I really recognize you reclaiming it and lifting it up however that's just my little soapbox second. But let's hear some success stories. What is Hack Membership doing for youths? What are you seeing?

Zach: Oh, it's unimaginable. I do not know. There is a Hack Clubbers who wrote a complete game engine in Rust. I used to be speaking with Hack Clubbers who built a whole clone of Minecraft in Rust where they made the OpenGL calls themselves. But the factor that I think is actually important about Hack Membership for people who find themselves in it beyond just the coding and beyond the socialization is I feel that for Hack Clubbers, coding is not only a strategy to make video games or make a personal webpage or I don't know, get a job sooner or later. It is a type of self expression. It's that is a place the place I may be myself, the place I can get what's in my head out on paper. It is a factor that offers you energy and an agency as a young individual that you don't actually find at school and do not really find in different activities or round your life. And it's a place where it would not really matter the place you are from or what you appear to be or who your mother and father are, how much money you make. It is that is a place the place folks will treat you like an actual person with real respect. And I know for me, when I used to be a young person, I was actually determined for that.

Danny: As you talked about this, I was thinking about the early days of the web and the internet. And i all of a sudden thought to myself, it's not just Hack Membership, it isn't simply these places where youngsters gather, I think an enormous chunk of the positive 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 well.

Zach: Wow. He's a private hero of mine

Danny: Proper. And after we first met Aaron, he was hacking on the elemental code that was constructing the web with Tim Berners-Lee at, I feel he will need to have been 14. Tons of individuals start out at that age. And the other factor is and I feel this goes to the heart of what we attempt to speak about on this show is you're modeling the optimistic future of the internet. And it is driven by individuals wanting to build that, wanting to build that for themselves. Do the youngsters you talk to, do they suppose about this more broadly?

Zach: I feel coding is the glue. It's the thing that brings everybody together but the magic is in all the why questions. Because Hack Club's a space the place individuals ask questions like, who am I? Who do I want to be? What is this world I stay in? What's my relationship with it? And I feel that now we have this concept of hacker associates where if I feel if Hack Membership does one thing, we want to try and help younger people discover other hacker associates as a result of when you may have someone else such as you, that shares your curiosity at a very deep stage, it signifies that when you explore those questions, you can go much deeper and you're feeling heard in a approach that you simply may not if you don't have associates which might be as into some of these things as you.

Cindy: Hack Membership's not the just one. There are packages like this all around the globe which can be actually specifically geared toward reaching communities who basically weren't the main target of kind of the primary technology of hacker kids. Should you'd talk about that too, I might find it irresistible.

Zach: For me growing up and I believe this is built into Hack Club's DNA, I undoubtedly felt like a toddler of the world or a toddler of the web because the people I used to be having so many of those formative conversations with online had been from all around the world from all backgrounds. And I feel that that is simply so extremely essential.

One of my favorite issues about Hack Membership is since we don't this design a playbook that then everybody runs, each Hack Membership at every school is different. And consequently, while you go to a Hack Club in Kerala India, it's dramatically completely different than a Hack Membership in America. It's totally different. It makes extra sense for local context.

And as a result, once you stroll into some of these clubs from around the globe, the local leaders have actually asked, "What makes essentially the most sense for me? What makes probably the most sense for different people like me?" And I think that, significantly in areas the place individuals feel marginalized or they do not see a home for themselves or they don't have position models in the identical approach that some extra traditional folks might have, my hope is that with Hack Club, that they will construct the house that they've all the time been on the lookout for. And I feel that the web permits young people to do that in a manner that just wasn't possible earlier than.

Danny: That is such a cliche, but this is actually the following era. This is the long run. Do you have any predictions about the future of the internet? What are the things that they're constructing which can be missing in the existing system?

Zach: We face a few of the most important challenges over the next 50 years that humanity's ever had to reckon with. And I feel that we want a generation of young individuals who not only have actual laborious abilities, they'll truly do something from a builder perspective round these big challenges however they also have the proper mindset and network to think slightly 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 fairly than really feel, we are born with issues and we must deal with these issues. There's nothing that we are able to do about it. It's a really empowered mindset.

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

Cindy: Such a great vision. Let's soar to that future. What does it appear like if we get this right? If we unleash all the Hack Clubbers and the other youngsters who're using know-how and envisioning applied sciences to construct a better world than the one we have now now. Take us to that world. What does it look like?

Zach: I don't know if this is just too massive of an concept but I need to stay in a world the place there is a hacker president. However in more concrete phrases, I need all the modern, exciting stuff to be open supply because it signifies that immediately the people who can engage with it, is not everybody who can afford to buy a license to their firm however it is every single particular person that has technical information in your complete world and web entry. I wish to stay in a world the place the constraints of location, of locale are smaller than ever earlier than.

Cindy: And what I actually love about this imaginative and prescient is that it actually is about a movement. I feel one of the issues that distresses me in regards to the stories popping out of the early internet is all of them seem to one man who did one thing. And truthfully, they're virtually all guys and guys of a sure coloration. And I think that this manner of storytelling, I am unsure it was really all that true for these of us who lived by it however what I hear you is actually, really doubling down on this concept that it takes a movement, that folks transfer together and that this kind of single particular person narrative shouldn't be actually the narrative of fine change and that you are working to try to build communities and networks in order that we get previous that.

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

Cindy: Yeah. And let's just double down, we received to get those obstacles out of the way in which. Kids need to be able to entry all the information. They need to have the ability to proper click on on their Chromebooks and view supply and all of these items. And the function of that, which seems like funny little geeky things, it's central to how we get from right here to there.

Danny: Well, thanks a lot, Zach. I stay up for not only seeing what it's important to come up with sooner or later however seeing the following 20 years of what these children produce.

Zach: Thank you a lot for having me right here. It is such an honor to be in a position to affix you on 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. Thank you, thanks, thank you, thank you, thanks.

Cindy: It goes both ways, Zach. You are elevating the next technology of EFF members, in all probability EFF staffers and perhaps congressional and administrative staffers who have this in their bones. And that's the world. Just understanding how technology works is not enough. And I think that's really clear from what you are doing is you are constructing networks and you're building moral and accountable frameworks for a way do you be someone 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 talking about the issues that you are having they usually're tremendously necessary. And of course that's where EFF's rubber meets the highway is attempting to get these obstacles out of the best way. However we ended in such a contented place when it comes to this future. So thank you.

Cindy: I so recognize listening to about optimistic, young folks discovering, using and building the tools to make issues better and the function that the internet is enjoying in both serving to them connect, and serving to them really build this right into a movement that goes to construct the instruments which can be going to make a greater web in the future.

Danny: A lot of this speak of the surveillance and the censorship of children is wrapped this idea of keeping them safe. And then Zach who's caught within the middle. He goes to the web sites of those makers of filter know-how where they're actually claiming to be stopping school shootings and yet we all want kids to be protected but I do query whether this is de facto safety when Zack talks to the precise Hack Clubbers and they say that they feel like they're in an Orwellian surveillance state, that's not security.

Cindy: No, no. And I feel faculty directors, it is simply clear that they are outgunned right here and we want to really support them in recognizing what children actually have to grow. Jason I also actually appreciated him speaking about coding as a form of self expression. Obviously that is near and dear to my heart as EFF began with the concept that code is speech but in addition that this self expression isn't just in a constitutional sense. It is about a place the place I can be myself, where I can actually be the true me and all of that coming out of the idea that persons are learning methods to code, this as a technique of self expression it's simply heartening.

Danny: You teach children how to specific themselves, whether it's code and talking up after which they get to be a part of that debate. And I feel they're an important part of that debate.

Cindy: One of the issues that I really liked about the way in which Zach talked about the group he's building is it is being constructed by teenagers for teenagers, possibly for the remainder of us too. But recognizing that this neighborhood needs to be designing the technologies and developing the technologies that this group wants. That where it must be centered. It reminds me of the conversation we had with Matt Mitchell, where he talked about communities needing to construct the tools that they want, whether or not they're in, where he was in Harlem or in a rural space or somewhere world wide. This neighborhood empowerment works not solely in geography but in addition in the distinction between being a child and being an adult.

Cindy: Effectively, due to our guest, Zach Latta, for sharing his optimism and the work that he is doing. If you'd like to start out a Hack Club or donate to help help them, they are at hackclub.com. There are similar organizations all throughout the nation and all across the world. But supporting this work, I think is tremendously essential to construct a future internet that all of us wish to reside in.

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