Podcast Episode: Hack To The Future

Like many younger folks, Zach Latta went to a school that didn't teach any computer courses. However that didn’t cease him from learning all the things he could about them and turning into a programmer at a younger age. After shifting to San Francisco, Zach based Hack Club, a nonprofit community of high school coding clubs around the world, to assist other students discover the education and neighborhood that he wished he had as a teenager.

This week on our podcast, we talk to Zach about the significance of student access to an open web, why studying to code can improve fairness, and the way school's online safety and the legislation usually stand in the way. We’ll additionally focus on how pc schooling may also help create the next technology of makers and builders that we'd like to unravel some of society’s biggest issues.

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In this episode, you’ll find out about:

Why schools block some harmless academic content and coding assets, from widespread websites like Github to “view source” features on faculty-issued gadgets
How locked down digital techniques in faculties cease young folks from learning about coding and computer systems, and create equity issues for college students who're already marginalized
How coding and “hack” clubs can empower younger folks, help them study self-expression, and discover group
How pervasive school surveillance undermines belief and limits people’s capability to train their rights when they are older
How young people’s curiosity for a way issues work on-line has helped bring us among the expertise we love most

Zach Latta is the executive director of Hack Club, a national nonprofit connecting over 14,000 young folks to help them create and participate in coding clubs, hackathons, and workshops around the globe. He is a Forbes 30 Underneath 30 recipient and a Thiel Fellow.

Music for a way to repair the Internet was created for us by Reed Mathis and Nat Keefe of BeatMower.

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Coders’ Rights Project Reverse Engineering FAQ

Students’ Rights and Surveillance

Pupil Privateness
Roseville City College District Embraces Chromebooks, However At What Value?
Fewer Sources, Fewer Decisions: A college Administrator in Indiana Works to protect Scholar Privateness
Legal Overview: Key Laws Related to the Safety of Student Information
Proctoring Apps Topic Students to Unnecessary Surveillance
Student Privacy and the Struggle to keep Spying Out of Schools: Year in Evaluation 2020

Censorship Requires Surveillance

When you Construct It, They may Come: Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship All over the world
Understanding and Circumventing Community Censorship

Hack Club

Map of Hack Clubs worldwide
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Transcript:

Zach: I grew up near Los Angeles, each my dad and mom had been social employees and growing up, I went to public colleges that the majority schools in America didn't teach any computer courses. And for me, as a younger particular person, I simply felt like, oh my God, if only I might determine how these magical units work, this is where the secrets of the universe lie. But it was all the time a solitary activity 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 yr when I was sixteen and that i moved to San Francisco to turn into a programmer. And after working at a couple startups to get some money and put together some savings, I began Hack Club to try and create the form of place and neighborhood that I so desperately wished I had when I was a teenager.

Cindy: That's Zach Latta. He's the founder of Hack Club and he is our guest as we speak. Zach is going to tell us about how teams like Hack Club are instructing kids the right way to hack and otherwise be creators online and how that is one of many ways we can help shift them from being just passive shoppers of the digital world to really charting their very own futures.

Danny: We're going to speak to Zach about scholar rights to an open web, why learning to code can improve equity and what occurs when a college's online security and the legislation get in the way of all that.

Cindy: I am Cindy Cohn, EFF's government director.

Danny: And I'm Danny O'Brien, particular advisor to the EFF. Welcome to How to fix the Web, a podcast of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the place we deliver you massive concepts, solutions, and hope that we are able to fix the most important issues we face on-line.

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

Zach: Nicely, thanks so much for having me. I am so honored. Rising up as a teenager, I just cherished the EFF and all the things the organization stood for. It is an actual honor to be with all of you here immediately.

Cindy: Oh, terrific.

You reached out to EFF for help and that is how we ended up actually assembly you. Can you discuss to us about what led you to try this?

Zach: We're a community of teenagers all the world over who love building issues with computer systems and run communities to try and bring teenagers collectively, to make issues with know-how. And nearly every month, we have now a serious drawback where a faculty district just blocks Hack Club. And there isn't a worse name to get from a Hack Club, they're saying, "All proper, I bought 20 people within the room, we're attempting to get began, hackclub.com is blocked, github.com is blocked, Stack Overflow is blocked, how can we probably run our meeting from right here?"

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

Danny: Just to be clear here, this is not just you being blocked, this is major informational sources, right?

Zach: Oh yeah. It's crazy. If you're a younger one that desires to find out about computers and wants to learn to code, you form of need the internet to do that. And you depend on websites like Google, like GitHub, like Stack Overflow, like GitLab. There's an entire ecosystem that each single skilled developer relies on each single day and at a big proportion of faculties round America, all of these resources are simply blocked, together with hackclub.com.

We run a club domestically right here in Vermont, the place we check out all of our stuff before we put it on-line and open supply it. And I used to be talking with a Hack Clubber there the place literally every single webpage moreover school classroom is blocked on their college computer. And this Hack Clubber is not from a family with means so the one laptop that they have access to at home is their college issued Chromebook. And consequently, he is six weeks behind all people else in this membership and still hasn't gotten previous the preliminary hurdle of building early websites.

Danny: Obviously what you're doing in Hack Membership should be extremely subversive to be blocked in this fashion. What are you doing? What are these children learning or failing to study because they can't actually entry to the web?

Zach: What Hack Membership's all about is bringing teenagers collectively who love computers and wish to learn to make issues with computers. Whether it is constructing an internet site or making a video game or maybe even starting a neighborhood enterprise and most faculties do not supply any curriculum or assist around that. What Hack Clubbers are doing is in their meetings, they're often making an attempt to study HTML, CSS, JavaScript or later on, more superior languages like Rust or not too long ago there's a big motion round Zig, which is a new fashionable language. And when you are attempting to run the meeting and produce people to github.com, where we have numerous our resources, when it's blocked, it is the meeting's dead on arrival. I don't suppose college administrators are bad individuals. I come from an extended line of teachers and I feel that individuals in schools are doing their finest however are probably afraid around issues like liability.

Cindy: Their incentive is simply to guantee that children don't ever get to anything that may probably be problematic. They haven't got an incentive to verify kids can truly learn some of these expertise. And so, if you outsource this to folks whose enterprise it's to dam, they're going to block versus having a thoughtful process by which you figure out what do students really must study? And I feel you are totally right, when it comes to computer programming and understanding how computer systems work, all people learned this by going out onto the internet and discovering the locations where other people are sharing this and one thing like GitHub, an enormous proportion of what really runs the internet is there. It's just a little crazy

Danny: When we educate people to read and write, we're not anticipating them to be English literature students or novelists. We're giving them the instruments to work in society. When now we have reading, writing and algorithms or no matter, it is in order that they'll do what they need to do in society and they will build society with an understanding of the issues round them.

Zach: While you realize that the world around us is constructed by other human beings, you notice you may very well be one of those human beings. I think that starting 10 years in the past, there was this large shift in education that occurred. And for some motive still isn't really a part of the dialogue around what good classrooms or good learning environments seems to be like, which is that each single younger particular person on the planet began having these magical units of their pockets, which had all of human history and knowledge on them. These things are better than the Library of Alexandria. This is it. It would not get better. And I believe that a lot of public education methods around the world are designed to resolve access problems. How can we simply merely get entry to data in entrance of all people and to them?: And we have built this unbelievable distribution mechanism. It's actually exceptional but I believe the brand new problem of studying within the 21st century is one of motivation. How will we get individuals to care? How can we get folks to make use of this? And I believe that after we lock down digital techniques around younger individuals, we kind of tell them, "Don't poke and prod, do not try issues, do not go out of your way to go down a path that we have not pre-authorized for you." And I think that that sort of kills curiosity. It's really counterproductive.

Danny: How much do you think of it is because you're called Hack Membership? How a lot do you assume is because individuals associate that with malicious hacking?

Zach: I believe it's maybe a small aspect. Regardless that Minecraft-servers.Biz feel Hack Membership as a company is slightly subversive in nature. We work straight with teenagers. We operate kind of exterior of the system, in some regards. The colleges that Hack Clubs are in, often the varsity loves Hack Club because it is teenagers at their college who are getting together in a method that means that they are really engaged of their studying. And we're considered one of lots of of teams that run into these issues every single day. And I feel this concept of students' rights, notably on the web, because it is so new, it is so technical, only for some reason is not talked about at all, though it affects younger folks greater than almost some other resolution made at their college.

Cindy: We've been talking lots about blocking access to info, blocking web sites and issues like that but I believe that you've seen issues with the units themselves, haven't you?

Zach: Yeah. More and more Hack Clubbers, the one system they have entry to both in meetings or at home is a faculty issued Chromebook. And one of the options on college issued Chromebooks is to disable right clicking and clicking examine element. And also you cannot discover ways to program websites without being in a position to do this. And this is such an actual downside that we have had to build our own debugger to assist with that.

Danny: Simply to be clear right here, when you say proper click on, this is the factor the place you could have the second mouse button after which individuals at all times stumble on this by accident and surprise what the heck have I executed? Since you click and then there's a little menu. It's for coders or for someone who wants to kind of go a bit deeper or of course save a picture. It is the kind of metaphor for, okay, let's go slightly bit deeper into what we're looking at here. And that doesn’t… kids cannot try this on these lockdown computer systems?

Zach: Yeah. It's a device safety setting. You may turn off inspecting aspect, which means that young people in Hack Club meetings who don't have a school issued computer can view the supply code of any website that they go to. And if you don't have the assets at residence to have one and you only the school issued pc, you simply can't.

Danny: All people within the early web realized how to construct the remainder of the early web by view supply. There was slightly pull down menu.

Cindy: Absolutely.

Danny: And in case you noticed an internet web page that you liked, you possibly can have a look at the original HTML and then cut and paste it and mess around with it. And you are saying that children simply have to take what they've given now?

Zach: You excellent click on and it's not an option.

Danny: Holy cow.

Cindy: And it is a setting. Chromebooks do not come like this necessarily but they provide the directors the power to lock kids out of this data. It's just, it's laborious to imagine the considering that leads you to determine that we will deny children data in school.

Danny: And just me and Zach and Cindy and now are vibrating within the studio. You can't actually see this. One of the issues so upsetting about this is that the environment, the mouse, the windowing atmosphere that you are utilizing was specifically constructed to be an academic atmosphere that you may discover and learn. It is an absolute perversion of the very basic approach this stuff were developed and meant to use. It's like in case you gave someone a painting set but no paints.

Cindy: The fairness points listed here are simply large. As a result of we all know that certainly one of the great issues is that we're now giving kids gadgets that they'll use to help themselves study. However if they're locked down gadgets and that is the wealthy youngsters have another machine that they can use however the poor children end up with just a lockdown machine, a poor machine for poor folks really it appears like.

Zach: While you look on the advertising for a few of these college filter corporations, the marketing is like, we forestall scholar suicide. And it's, we stop faculty shootings. What a strange connection to draw. After which the issues they do to be able to attract that connection is just not solely do they filter what web sites you're in a position to go to but they actually scan each single electronic mail you send out of your school account, every single IM that you just ship from your faculty account, they scan the belongings you do on web sites. For this one district that we're in, in Georgia, whenever you go to a website that is blocked, not only does it say, "This web site's blocked, you're not allowed to come back here," but it surely actually says that there's a safety issue together with your pc and that the way in which repair it's to download this intermediate SSL certificate, install it in your laptop, set as a trusted supply and what that means is it allows the varsity to man within the center your whole encrypted traffic.

Danny: Right. That's like your undermining the safety of that pc. And I feel this is really necessary to emphasize. One of many issues that we all the time speak about at EFF is you can't do censorship with out surveillance. You've got to have the ability to see what people are looking at to block it. And what that means for these type of techniques is, as you say, simply to be clear, what that particular person is being requested to download there's the master key to all of their communications on that laptop, from their financial particulars to every part.

Cindy: Sure. And it's an issue that predates COVID however it really bought supercharged during COVID, this idea that constant surveillance is what it's important to tolerate if you're a pupil. And that's dangerous first as a result of that's dangerous for kids but it's also dangerous because we're making a technology of kids who assume that being watched on a regular basis is okay. This is a fundamental human proper. It is central to human dignity. And one of the issues that we've discovered is you cannot deny kids completely human dignity after which expect them to suddenly at age 18, be able to train their full rights in a approach that will work. It does not work that approach.

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

Zach: Properly, there's two issues I might like to contact on there. I feel an idea that I would love for us all to begin talking about is this idea of digital civic duty. And I feel it's the identical factor the place you not only obtain being a client but you give too. You make your individual web sites, you modify the web, you modify expertise. You're not just a consumer, you are a creator too.

In terms of what Hack Clubbers really feel about college surveillance. Hack Clubbers really feel like they reside in an Orwellian surveillance state because you spend your time on networks which can be surveilled, where in case you try to poke prod, bad issues could occur. And I think positively Hack Clubbers really feel like they cannot interact with their school on issues like these because I believe a lot of college directors are not technical sufficient to grasp what's occurring. When you flag the fallacious factor, you may very easily find yourself dealing with disciplinary motion or one thing like that. I had this happen when I was a teenager, I installed a VPN on my laptop computer, what I dropped at my school, I used to be the only individual at my school that I knew on a laptop and I used to be pulled aside by the vice principal because they have been like, "Why are you hacking our college?"

Danny: And I feel it undermines belief. First of all, you set the stakes. That the administration is type of saying, "We don't actually belief you so we're going to place this software program." But then when kids who're curious and fascinated on this look into it, they notice that they are additionally being lied to.

Zach: And I believe it really undermines these values that we discuss loads about, like curiosity, like tinkering, like attempting issues out, figuring out who you want to be by making an attempt to make issues. When there's a consequence to these actions, which is the case when you've gotten your web activity filtered and then mechanically reported in some instances, it means that all of a sudden making an attempt to be taught there may very well be a consequence if you happen to Google the incorrect factor. And I feel that in a place where we care loads about independence and the place we care rather a lot about serving to folks change into their own particular person brokers of change, I feel that our digital environments that we create for younger folks inside of schools, I believe type of does the other. It tells you, "No, you are a consumer, keep watching Netflix, don't mess along with your computer."

Cindy: I think this actually hearkens back to the start of the Electronic Frontier Basis, where we had law enforcement coming in and doing raids on loads of children who were poking around on the early internet, trying to determine how issues work. This is absolutely one of the founding tales of EFF. And the flip side of it's a few of those self same children or youngsters who had been mates with them, by the name of perhaps Wozniak or other issues, they went on to develop some of the tools and the issues that we love the most. We're not simply doing something unfair to those youngsters, we could also be brief circuiting the next era of people who find themselves going to bring us a better world.

Cindy: Let's discuss a few of Hack Club's successes. And by the way, I just need to offer you extra love for reclaiming the time period hack for doing something good. This is being a hacker, again, I'm an old school internet particular person, being a hacker was being any person who dug in deeply, tried to figure things out. And it might have been not the prettiest factor however actually made issues work. And I feel that one way or the other we've misplaced that sense of the word and it is develop into synonymous with evil. And so I really recognize you reclaiming it and lifting it up however that's simply my little soapbox moment. But let's hear some success stories. What is Hack Membership doing for kids? What are you seeing?

Zach: Oh, it's unbelievable. I do not know. There is a Hack Clubbers who wrote a complete recreation engine in Rust. I used to be talking with Hack Clubbers who constructed a whole clone of Minecraft in Rust the place they made the OpenGL calls themselves. But the factor that I think is actually necessary about Hack Membership for people who find themselves in it past simply the coding and beyond the socialization is I think that for Hack Clubbers, coding is not just a approach to make video games or make a personal web site or I don't know, get a job sooner or later. It is a type of self expression. It's this is a spot the place I could be myself, the place I can get what is in my head out on paper. It is a thing that provides you energy and an agency as a young particular person that you don't really find in school and don't actually discover in other actions or around your life. And it's a spot the place it doesn't actually matter the place you're from or what you seem like or who your parents are, how much cash you make. It is this is a spot where individuals will deal with you want an actual individual with actual respect. And I know for me, when I was a younger person, I was really desperate for that.

Danny: As you talked about this, I was pondering about the early days of the online and the internet. And that i abruptly thought to myself, it isn't just Hack Club, it isn't simply these places the place kids collect, I feel an enormous chunk of the constructive sides of the internet have been built by youngsters or constructed by teenagers. I consider Aaron Swartz, who very near EFF. Me and Cindy knew him properly.

Zach: Wow. He is a personal hero of mine

Danny: Right. And once we first met Aaron, he was hacking on the basic code that was building the web with Tim Berners-Lee at, I think he must have been 14. Lots of people begin out at that age. And the opposite thing is and I believe this goes to the heart of what we attempt to speak about on this show is you're modeling the constructive future of the internet. And it is driven by folks wanting to build that, wanting to build that for themselves. Do the children you talk to, do they assume about this extra widely?

Zach: I believe coding is the glue. It is the thing that brings everyone collectively but the magic is in all the why questions. As a result of Hack Club's a space the place people ask questions like, who am I? Who do I need to be? What is this world I dwell in? What's my relationship with it? And I feel that now we have this concept of hacker friends where if I think if Hack Club does one factor, we need to try and assist younger folks find other hacker friends because when you've someone else like you, that shares your interest at a very deep stage, it signifies that if you explore those questions, you possibly can go much deeper and you're feeling heard in a way that you may not if you don't have associates which can be as into some of these items as you.

Cindy: Hack Club's not the just one. There are packages like this all world wide that are actually particularly geared toward reaching communities who basically weren't the focus of form of the first generation of hacker kids. When you'd speak about that too, I might find it irresistible.

Zach: For me rising up and I feel this is constructed into Hack Membership's DNA, I definitely felt like a child of the world or a toddler of the web because the people I was having so many of those formative conversations with on-line have been from everywhere in the world from all backgrounds. And I believe that that's just so incredibly important.

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

And consequently, whenever you stroll into a few of these clubs from all over the world, the local leaders have actually requested, "What makes essentially the most sense for me? What makes the most sense for other folks like me?" And I feel that, significantly in areas the place folks really feel marginalized or they do not see a house for themselves or they do not have role fashions in the same approach that some extra traditional folks may need, my hope is that with Hack Membership, that they'll build the home that they've all the time been searching for. And I think that the internet permits younger people to do this in a method that just wasn't potential earlier than.

Danny: That is such a cliche, however this is actually the subsequent generation. This is the future. Do you might have any predictions about the way forward for the web? What are the issues that they're building which are lacking in the existing system?

Zach: We face a few of the most important challenges over the subsequent 50 years that humanity's ever had to reckon with. And I feel that we need a generation of younger individuals who not solely have actual hard skills, they will truly do one thing from a builder perspective round these enormous challenges but they also have the correct mindset and network to suppose a bit of bit in a different way.

The mindset is that if there's an issue, what does it take to fix it? It is very actionable rather than feel, we're born with issues and we must deal with these issues. There's nothing that we can do about it. It is a very empowered mindset.

They sort of see expertise not as an finish in itself however as a device for each single factor wanted to build amazing communities in this new world that we reside in.

Cindy: Such an excellent imaginative and prescient. Let's soar to that future. What does it seem like if we get this right? If we unleash all of the Hack Clubbers and the other kids who are using know-how and envisioning technologies to construct a better world than the one we have now. Take us to that world. What does it seem like?

Zach: I don't know if this is just too big of an concept however I need to reside in a world where there's a hacker president. But in more concrete phrases, I would like all of the revolutionary, thrilling stuff to be open supply because it means that out of the blue the people who can interact with it, is not everybody who can afford to purchase a license to their company however it's every single individual that has technical data in your complete world and web access. I wish to stay in a world the place the constraints of location, of locale are smaller than ever before.

Cindy: And what I really love about this imaginative and prescient is that it actually is about a movement. I think one of many things that distresses me about the stories popping out of the early internet is all of them appear to at least one guy who did one factor. And truthfully, they're virtually all guys and guys of a certain coloration. And I think that this manner of storytelling, I'm not sure it was actually all that true for those of us who lived through it but what I hear you is really, really doubling down on this concept that it takes a motion, that folks move together and that this type of single person narrative is not truly the narrative of excellent change and that you are working to attempt to construct communities and networks so that we get past that.

Zach: And I think that one thing that really helps with that is the open supply motion and the open supply community because it means that if you're coding on actual projects, the connection between you and the individual that wrote that line of code is nearer than ever. And you see, wow, initiatives like Ruby on Rails, they weren't built by one individual. They had been constructed by 2,000 individuals. And you see that comparable issues with big projects, like Firefox, large tasks like Rust, these are issues that take tribes.

Cindy: Yeah. And let's simply double down, we acquired to get these obstacles out of the way in which. Kids need to have the ability to access all the data. They want to be able to right click on their Chromebooks and view supply and all of these things. And the position of that, which seems like funny little geeky issues, it is central to how we get from here to there.

Danny: Effectively, thanks a lot, Zach. I look forward to not only seeing what it's a must to come up with sooner or later however seeing the subsequent 20 years of what these children produce.

Zach: Thank you so much for having me right here. It's such an honor to be able to hitch you on this dialog. It's such an honor for Hack Clubbers to have their story and their struggles be part of the conversation and for the work you're doing. Thank you, thanks, thanks, thank you, thanks.

Cindy: It goes each ways, Zach. You might be raising the subsequent era of EFF members, in all probability EFF staffers and perhaps congressional and administrative staffers who've this in their bones. And that's the world. Simply understanding how expertise works isn't enough. And I feel that's really clear from what you are doing is you're building networks and you're constructing ethical and accountable frameworks for how do you be any person who understands about tech but is utilizing it for good?

Cindy: Zach, thanks so much. This has been so fun speaking to you and so inspiring. I agree, we started off and we have been speaking about the issues that you're having they usually're tremendously essential. And naturally that is the place EFF's rubber meets the street is attempting to get these obstacles out of the best way. However we ended in such a cheerful place by way of this future. So thank you.

Cindy: I so respect hearing about optimistic, younger folks finding, using and constructing the tools to make issues higher and the position that the web is playing in each serving to them join, and helping them really build this into a motion that is going to construct the instruments which can be going to make a better internet sooner or later.

Danny: So much of this talk of the surveillance and the censorship of children is wrapped this concept of protecting them safe. And then Zach who's caught within the center. He goes to the websites of those makers of filter know-how the place they're actually claiming to be stopping school shootings and but we all need kids to be secure however I do query whether or not this is de facto safety when Zack talks to the precise Hack Clubbers and they are saying that they feel like they're in an Orwellian surveillance state, that's not safety.

Cindy: No, no. And I feel faculty directors, it is simply clear that they are outgunned right here and we'd like to actually assist them in recognizing what children actually have to develop. I also actually appreciated him talking about coding as a form of self expression. Clearly that is near and pricey to my coronary heart as EFF began with the concept code is speech but in addition that this self expression isn't simply in a constitutional sense. It's about a place the place I might be myself, where I can really be the true me and all of that popping out of the concept persons are studying methods to code, this as a means of self expression it's simply heartening.

Danny: You educate youngsters how to precise themselves, whether or not it is code and talking up and then they get to be part of that debate. And I believe they're an important part of that debate.

Cindy: One of the issues that I really cherished about the way Zach talked about the neighborhood he's building is it is being built by teenagers for teenagers, maybe for the remainder of us too. But recognizing that this community needs to be designing the technologies and creating the technologies that this community needs. That the place it must be centered. It reminds me of the conversation we had with Matt Mitchell, where he talked about communities needing to build the instruments that they want, whether or not they're in, where he was in Harlem or in a rural area or somewhere world wide. This neighborhood empowerment works not solely in geography but also in the difference between being a child and being an grownup.

Cindy: Effectively, because of our guest, Zach Latta, for sharing his optimism and the work that he is doing. If you would like to start a Hack Club or donate to assist support them, they're at hackclub.com. There are similar organizations all across the nation and all the world over. However supporting this work, I believe is tremendously vital to build a future internet that all of us want to reside in.

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