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Chokepoint Capitalism: The Bottlenecks in Our Technological Ecosystem
HEARSAY CULTURE RADIO
Episode 283
September 28, 2022
00:51:39

Hosted by Dave Levine
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Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
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DAVID LEVINE
Dave Levine is the founder and host of Hearsay Culture. He is a Professor at Elon University School of Law and an Affiliate Scholar at the Center for Internet and Society (Stanford Law School). From 2014-2017, he was a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. He is also the co-author of Information Law, Governance, and Cybersecurity (West 2019). A regular contributor to Slate, Dave has been published in leading newspapers, websites, and academic journals in the US and EU.
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