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Problems with YouTube & the Internet Creators Guild: Technology & Politics

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The Internet Creators Guild, invented by Hank Green and Laura Chernikoff, looks cool, but it symbolises some problems that I have with YouTube, “the YouTube community,” and Silicon Valley more generally – it’s a kind of bourgeois technocratic liberalism

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Recommended Reading: Akwugo Emejulu & Callum McGregor, Towards A Radical Digital Citizenship Evgeny Morozov, Why We Are Allowed to Hate Silicon Valley Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of The Earth Harshia Walia, “Undoing Border Imperialism” Foucault, Discipline and Punish Abigail Tracy, “Google Moved Billions Of Dollars To Bermuda To Avoid Taxes... Again,” http://tinyurl.com/gokwm8t Oliver Thorn, “How to Really Be a YouTube Star” (http://tinyurl.com/p873nwk) and “Vloggers of the World, Unite?” (http://tinyurl.com/hcmvlrl) Foldable Human: What is YouTube Heroes? http://tinyurl.com/zu6fo6k

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