Yasha Levine: Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet

With each passing year the internet becomes more and more a part of modern life. Despite story after story of hacks, malware, government surveillance, and corporate corruption, we continue to rely on the web for ever more social functions. Investigative journalist Yasha Levine shares observations to help us gain perspective on this system we take for granted, revealing the for-profit surveillance businesses operated within Silicon Valley and the military origins of the platforms and tools we use every day. Levine offers findings from his book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, tracing the history of this modern commodity back to its beginnings as a Vietnam-era military computer networking project for spying on guerrilla fighters and anti-war protesters. His insight offers us an opportunity to reframe this multinational communication tool as a global system of surveillance and prediction. Levine explores how the same military objectives that drove the development of early internet technology are still at the heart of Silicon Valley today-and invites us to reconsider what we know about the most powerful, ubiquitous tool ever created.
Yasha Levine is an investigative journalist for Pando Daily, a San Francisco-based news magazine focused on covering the politics and power of big tech. He has been published in Wired Magazine, The Nation, Slate, The New York Observer, and many others. He has also appeared on network television, including MSNBC, and has had his work profiled by Vanity Fair and The Verge, among others.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle and University Bookstore
Recorded 2/13/18
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[@fernly2]

I think IT came onboard at the perfect time for humanity to virtually assemble to encourage us to unite for liberty and justice. To the 4 corners of our blue planet words are shared and received with our special power of reason! 🎉 ride on sweet Jesus, the Prince of Peace. 🥰

[@adriennegallotta2890]

And they made an image of the Beast

[@Yourismouter]

interesting talk and Q&A, the Exiled Online needs to be fully committed again because the journalism of Mark Ames and Yasha is stupendous, is Pando even still active anymore? anywho I can't wait to get a copy of this book, no doubt many left-leaning outlets the controlled opposition are also ignoring it, but this will be an underground bestseller and well done to Yasha for this superb mythbusting he's doing in even calling out Snowden and his misguided libertarianism.

[@a_lucientes]

57:00 I wonder where he heard that version of how Ross Ulbricht was found and convicted. I suggest people watch *_Railroaded : The Targeting & Caging of Ross Ulbricht,_* and then see what you think.

[@maru9517]

I kept up with that story for awhile Maybe I heard it on C2M JB Wells or Clyde Lewis on Ground Zero but it was a strange story

[@tomchii]

why does this only have 3000 views!!??

[@optimistindevenire3442]

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[@bs2340]

"Never before trump was this used to influence society." Are you kidding me