Like many young folks, Zach Latta went to a college that didn't educate any laptop lessons. However that didn’t stop him from studying every part he might about them and becoming a programmer at a young age. After shifting to San Francisco, Zach based Hack Membership, a nonprofit community of highschool coding clubs world wide, to help different students discover the schooling and group that he wished he had as a teenager.
This week on our podcast, we speak to Zach concerning the importance of student entry to an open internet, why studying to code can improve fairness, and how school's online security and the legislation typically stand in the way. We’ll also discuss how computer schooling can help create the subsequent generation of makers and builders that we want to unravel a few of society’s largest issues.
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On this episode, you’ll study:
Why colleges block some harmless educational content material and coding assets, from widespread sites like Github to “view source” features on school-issued units
How locked down digital systems in schools cease younger folks from studying about coding and computer systems, and create equity points for students who're already marginalized
How coding and “hack” clubs can empower younger individuals, help them study self-expression, and discover community
How pervasive school surveillance undermines belief and limits people’s potential to train their rights when they are older
How younger people’s curiosity for how issues work online has helped bring us a number of the technology we love most
Zach Latta is the executive director of Hack Membership, a national nonprofit connecting over 14,000 young individuals to assist them create and participate in coding clubs, hackathons, and workshops around the world. He is a Forbes 30 Below 30 recipient and a Thiel Fellow.
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Resources
Coders’ Rights
Coders’ Rights Project
Coders’ Rights Mission Reverse Engineering FAQ
Students’ Rights and Surveillance
Student Privateness
Roseville Metropolis Faculty District Embraces Chromebooks, However At What Cost?
Fewer Resources, Fewer Choices: A college Administrator in Indiana Works to protect Student Privateness
Authorized Overview: Key Laws Related to the Safety of Student Data
Proctoring Apps Topic Students to Unnecessary Surveillance
Student Privateness and the Combat to keep Spying Out of Colleges: Year in Evaluation 2020
Censorship Requires Surveillance
If you happen to Construct It, They may Come: Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship Around the globe
Understanding and Circumventing Community Censorship
Hack Membership
Map of Hack Clubs worldwide
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Transcript:
Zach: I grew up near Los Angeles, both my mother and father have been social employees and growing up, I went to public colleges that most faculties in America didn't train any computer classes. And for me, as a young individual, I just felt like, oh my God, if solely I may work out how these magical gadgets work, that is where the secrets of the universe lie. But it was all the time a solitary activity for me.
As a teenager I was very lonely and that culminated for me, I ended up dropping out of highschool after my freshman 12 months when I used to be sixteen and that i moved to San Francisco to develop into a programmer. And after working at a pair startups to get some money and put collectively some financial savings, I started Hack Club to try to create the form of place and neighborhood that I so desperately wished I had when I used to be a teenager.
Cindy: That is Zach Latta. He is the founding father of Hack Club and he is our guest immediately. Zach is going to inform us about how groups like Hack Membership are teaching children tips on how to hack and otherwise be creators on-line and the way that is one of many methods we may also help shift them from being just passive customers of the digital world to truly charting their very own futures.
Danny: We're going to talk to Zach about pupil rights to an open internet, why studying to code can improve equity and what happens when a school's on-line security and the legislation get in the way in which of all that.
Cindy: I am Cindy Cohn, EFF's executive director.
Danny: And I'm Danny O'Brien, special advisor to the EFF. Welcome to How to fix the Web, a podcast of the Electronic Frontier Basis, where we carry you big concepts, solutions, and hope that we can repair the largest problems we face online.
Cindy: Zach, thanks so much for becoming a member of us.
Zach: Effectively, thanks so much for having me. I am so honored. Rising up as a teenager, I just cherished the EFF and every little thing the organization stood for. It is a real honor to be with all of you right here right this moment.
Cindy: Oh, terrific.
You reached out to EFF for assist and that is how we ended up actually meeting you. Are you able to discuss to us about what led you to try this?
Zach: We are a community of teenagers all the world over who love building issues with computers and run communities to strive and convey teenagers collectively, to make things with technology. And virtually every month, we've got a significant problem the place a college district just blocks Hack Club. And there isn't a worse name to get from a Hack Club, they're saying, "All right, I got 20 individuals in the room, we're trying 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?"
Because of this problem, form of in a little bit of frustration. With some Hack Clubbers I wrote a letter to EFF assist line, simply saying, "Hey, is there any manner that EFF is likely to be ready to assist us with this? As a result of this is beginning to be a factor the place it is not like one college has this drawback, it is like we've dozens of schools around America the place simply all the things's blocked."
Danny: Simply to be clear here, this is not simply you being blocked, that is main informational resources, right?
Zach: Oh yeah. It is loopy. If you are a younger person who wants to study computers and needs to learn to code, you type of want the web to try this. And you depend on sites like Google, like GitHub, like Stack Overflow, like GitLab. There's a complete ecosystem that each single skilled developer depends on each single day and at a big percentage of schools round America, all of those sources are simply blocked, together with hackclub.com.
We run a club domestically here in Vermont, the place we take a look at out all of our stuff before we put it online and open source it. And I used to be talking with a Hack Clubber there where literally each single website apart from college classroom is blocked on their college laptop. And this Hack Clubber is not from a household with means so the one laptop that they've access to at house is their college issued Chromebook. And in consequence, he's six weeks behind all people else in this club and nonetheless hasn't gotten previous the initial hurdle of constructing early websites.
Danny: Obviously what you might be doing in Hack Membership should be extraordinarily subversive to be blocked in this fashion. What are you doing? What are these children learning or failing to study as a result of they can't actually entry to the web?
Zach: What Hack Membership's all about is bringing teenagers collectively who love computers and want to learn to make things with computer systems. Whether it's building an internet site or making a video game or perhaps even starting a local business and most faculties do not supply any curriculum or assist around that. What Hack Clubbers are doing is of their conferences, they're usually making an attempt to study HTML, CSS, JavaScript or later on, extra superior languages like Rust or just lately there's a giant motion around Zig, which is a new widespread language. And when you are trying to run the meeting and bring individuals to github.com, the place we've numerous our sources, when it is blocked, it is the assembly's dead on arrival. I don't assume faculty directors are unhealthy people. I come from a long line of teachers and I feel that people in colleges are doing their finest however are probably afraid around issues like liability.
Cindy: Their incentive is simply to be sure that kids don't ever get to something that might probably be problematic. They don't have an incentive to ensure children can actually study some of these abilities. And so, whenever you outsource this to individuals whose enterprise it is to dam, they're going to block versus having a considerate course of by which you figure out what do college students actually have to learn? And I believe you are completely proper, in relation to pc programming and understanding how computer systems work, everyone learned this by going out onto the internet and finding the places where other people are sharing this and one thing like GitHub, an enormous share of what truly runs the web is there. It's just a little crazy
Danny: After we educate people to learn and write, we're not expecting them to be English literature students or novelists. We're giving them the instruments to work in society. When we've got reading, writing and algorithms or no matter, it's so that they'll do what they wish to do in society and they can construct society with an understanding of the things round them.
Zach: While you understand that the world round us is built by other human beings, you realize you may very well be one of those human beings. I think that beginning 10 years ago, there was this large shift in education that happened. And for some cause still is not actually part of the dialogue round what good classrooms or good learning environments seems like, which is that every single young person on the planet began having these magical devices in their pockets, which had all of human historical past and information on them. This stuff are higher than the Library of Alexandria. This is it. It doesn't get better. And I believe that a lot of public schooling techniques all over the world are designed to solve access problems. How will we simply merely get entry to knowledge in front of all people and to them?: And we've built this unimaginable distribution mechanism. It is really remarkable but I think the new challenge of studying in the twenty first century is considered one of motivation. How can we get people to care? How will we get individuals to use this? And I feel that after we lock down digital programs round young individuals, we sort of inform them, "Do not poke and prod, don't try things, do not exit of your solution to go down a path that we have not pre-approved for you." And I feel that that form of kills curiosity. It is really counterproductive.
Danny: How a lot do you think of it's because you're known as Hack Club? How much do you think is as a result of people associate that with malicious hacking?
Zach: I think it's perhaps a small aspect. Though I believe Hack Membership as an organization is a bit subversive in nature. We work directly with teenagers. We function sort of outside of the system, in some regards. The faculties that Hack Clubs are in, normally the varsity loves Hack Membership as a result of it's teenagers at their college who're getting together in a means that means that they're really engaged in their learning. And we are one in all a whole lot of teams that run into these problems each single day. And I believe this idea of students' rights, notably on the web, as a result of it is so new, it is so technical, just for some purpose is not talked about in any respect, though it impacts younger folks greater than almost any other decision made at their faculty.
Cindy: We have been talking too much about blocking access to data, blocking websites and issues like that but I believe that you have seen issues with the gadgets themselves, have not you?
Zach: Yeah. Increasingly Hack Clubbers, the only gadget they have entry to either in meetings or at dwelling is a faculty issued Chromebook. And one of many options on school issued Chromebooks is to disable right clicking and clicking inspect element. And you cannot discover ways to program websites without being able to do this. And that is such a real problem that we've had to build our own debugger to assist with that.
Danny: Just to be clear here, whenever you say proper click on, that is the factor the place you've gotten the second mouse button after which individuals at all times stumble on this by accident and surprise what the heck have I carried out? Because you click on and then there's just a little menu. It's for coders or for somebody who needs to sort of go a bit deeper or after all save a picture. It's the type of metaphor for, okay, let's go a bit of bit deeper into what we're taking a look at here. And that doesn’t… kids can't do this on these lockdown computers?
Zach: Yeah. It's a device security setting. You may turn off inspecting factor, which signifies that young individuals in Hack Club meetings who don't have a school issued laptop can view the supply code of any web site that they go to. And if you do not have the resources at home to have one and also you solely the college issued computer, you just cannot.
Danny: All people in the early internet learned how to construct the remainder of the early internet by view supply. There was a bit of pull down menu.
Cindy: Absolutely.
Danny: And for those who saw a web page that you favored, you could possibly take a look at the unique HTML after which reduce and paste it and mess round with it. And you are saying that children simply must take what they've given now?
Zach: You excellent click on and it is not an choice.
Danny: Holy cow.
Cindy: And it is a setting. Chromebooks do not come like this essentially however they offer the directors the power to lock youngsters out of this information. It is simply, it is laborious to think about the thinking that leads you to decide that we'll deny children information in class.
Danny: And simply me and Zach and Cindy and now are vibrating in the studio. You cannot actually see this. One of the things so upsetting about that is that the atmosphere, the mouse, the windowing surroundings that you're utilizing was specifically built to be an academic atmosphere that you may explore and study. It is an absolute perversion of the very elementary way these things had been developed and meant to use. It is like in case you gave somebody a painting set but no paints.
Cindy: The equity points listed here are just great. Because we all know that one among the good things is that we're now giving youngsters units that they will use to assist themselves study. But in the event that they're locked down gadgets and that is the wealthy youngsters have another machine that they'll use but the poor children end up with just a lockdown machine, a poor gadget for poor people really it seems like.
Zach: Once you look at the marketing for some of these faculty filter firms, the advertising is like, we prevent pupil suicide. And it's, we prevent school shootings. What an odd connection to draw. After which the things they do to be in a position to draw that connection isn't only do they filter what websites you are able to go to however they really scan every single e mail you ship out of your college account, each single IM that you simply ship out of your faculty account, they scan the stuff you do on web sites. For this one district that we're in, in Georgia, when you go to a website that is blocked, not solely does it say, "This web site's blocked, you're not allowed to come back here," however it really says that there's a security issue along with your laptop and that the way fix it's to obtain this intermediate SSL certificate, install it in your laptop, set as a trusted source and what meaning is it permits the college to man in the center all of your encrypted visitors.
Danny: Proper. That's like your undermining the security of that pc. And I believe this is absolutely important to emphasize. One of the issues that we all the time discuss at EFF is you can't do censorship without surveillance. You have got to have the ability to see what individuals are taking a look at to dam it. And what meaning for these kind of techniques is, as you say, simply to be clear, what that particular person is being requested to obtain there may be the grasp key to all of their communications on that laptop, from their financial details to the whole lot.
Cindy: Sure. And it is a problem that predates COVID however it actually obtained supercharged throughout COVID, this concept that constant surveillance is what you need to tolerate if you are a student. And that's dangerous first as a result of that is harmful for kids but it is also harmful as a result of we're making a era of kids who assume that being watched on a regular basis is okay. This can be a fundamental human right. It's central to human dignity. And one of many issues that we've discovered is you cannot deny youngsters utterly human dignity and then count on them to suddenly at age 18, be capable of train their full rights in a way that may work. It would not work that approach.
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How do the children themselves feel about this? What do you get from them?
Zach: Nicely, there's two issues I would love to contact on there. I believe an idea that I would love for us all to begin speaking about is this concept of digital civic obligation. And I feel it is the identical thing the place you not solely receive being a consumer but you give too. You make your own websites, you modify the internet, you modify technology. You are not only a client, you are a creator too.
By way of what Hack Clubbers really feel about school surveillance. Hack Clubbers feel like they live in an Orwellian surveillance state since you spend your time on networks which can be surveilled, the place in the event you attempt to poke prod, dangerous things might occur. And Minecraft Servers feel positively Hack Clubbers really feel like they can not work together with their school on issues like these because I feel a variety of school administrators aren't technical enough to understand what's going on. When you flag the mistaken factor, you can very simply find yourself facing disciplinary action or something like that. I had this occur when I was a teenager, I put in a VPN on my laptop computer, what I brought to my faculty, I was the only particular person at my college that I knew on a laptop computer and I was pulled apart by the vice principal as a result of they had been like, "Why are you hacking our faculty?"
Danny: And I think it undermines trust. To begin with, you set the stakes. That the administration is variety of claiming, "We do not really belief you so we're going to put this software program." But then when youngsters who are curious and fascinated in this look into it, they understand that they are also being lied to.
Zach: And I believe it actually undermines these values that we talk too much about, like curiosity, like tinkering, like trying issues out, figuring out who you want to be by trying to make things. When there's a consequence to these actions, which is the case when you have got your web exercise filtered after which automatically reported in some cases, it means that suddenly making an attempt to study there may very well be a consequence in case you Google the improper factor. And I feel that in a place the place we care rather a lot about independence and where we care a lot about serving to individuals develop into their own particular person brokers of change, I feel that our digital environments that we create for younger folks inside of schools, I think kind of does the other. It tells you, "No, you're a shopper, keep watching Netflix, don't mess together with your computer."
Cindy: I feel this really hearkens again to the start of the Digital Frontier Foundation, the place we had legislation enforcement coming in and doing raids on lots of children who have been poking round on the early web, making an attempt to determine how things work. This is admittedly one of the founding stories of EFF. And the flip aspect of it is some of those self same kids or children who were mates with them, by the name of perhaps Wozniak or other things, they went on to develop some of the instruments and the things that we love essentially the most. We're not just doing one thing unfair to those kids, we may be brief circuiting the subsequent technology of people who are going to convey us a greater world.
Cindy: Let's speak about a few of Hack Club's successes. And by the way in which, I just wish to give you extra love for reclaiming the term hack for doing one thing good. This is being a hacker, once more, I am an old style web individual, being a hacker was being somebody who dug in deeply, tried to figure issues out. And it might need been not the prettiest factor however truly made issues work. And I think that one way or the other we have lost that sense of the phrase and it is turn into synonymous with evil. And so I really appreciate you reclaiming it and lifting it up but that is simply my little soapbox moment. However let's hear some success stories. What's Hack Membership doing for kids? What are you seeing?
Zach: Oh, it is unimaginable. I don't know. There's a Hack Clubbers who wrote a whole recreation engine in Rust. I used to be speaking with Hack Clubbers who constructed an entire clone of Minecraft in Rust where they made the OpenGL calls themselves. But the factor that I think is basically important about Hack Club for people who are in it past just the coding and beyond the socialization is I believe that for Hack Clubbers, coding isn't only a option to make video games or make a private website or I do not know, get a job in the future. It is a form of self expression. It's this is a place the place I will be myself, where I can get what's in my head out on paper. It's a thing that provides you energy and an agency as a younger particular person that you don't really find at school and don't actually discover in different actions or round your life. And it's a place the place it would not actually matter where you're from or what you appear to be or who your mother and father are, how much cash you make. It is that is a spot where people will deal with you want a real person with actual respect. And I do know for me, when I was a younger individual, I was really determined for that.
Danny: As you talked about this, I used to be pondering about the early days of the online and the web. And i instantly thought to myself, it's not simply Hack Membership, it isn't simply these locations where youngsters collect, I think a huge chunk of the positive sides of the internet had been constructed by kids or built by teenagers. I consider Aaron Swartz, who very close to EFF. Me and Cindy knew him well.
Zach: Wow. He is a personal hero of mine
Danny: Proper. And when we first met Aaron, he was hacking on the basic code that was constructing the internet with Tim Berners-Lee at, I believe he should have been 14. Tons of individuals start out at that age. And the opposite thing is and I believe this goes to the heart of what we try and talk about on this show is you are modeling the optimistic future of the internet. And it is driven by people wanting to build that, wanting to build that for themselves. Do the kids you talk to, do they suppose about this more widely?
Zach: I feel coding is the glue. It is the thing that brings everybody collectively however the magic is in all of the why questions. As a result of Hack Membership's a space where individuals ask questions like, who am I? Who do I wish to be? What is this world I reside in? What is my relationship with it? And I think that we have this concept of hacker pals where if I feel if Hack Club does one thing, we need to attempt to assist young people find different hacker buddies as a result of when you may have someone else like you, that shares your interest at a very deep level, it signifies that once you explore those questions, you may go a lot deeper and you're feeling heard in a manner that you simply might not if you do not have associates which can be as into a few of these things as you.
Cindy: Hack Membership's not the only one. There are programs like this all around the world which can be really particularly aimed at reaching communities who basically weren't the focus of kind of the primary generation of hacker children. If you happen to'd speak about that too, I'd adore it.
Zach: For me growing up and I believe this is built into Hack Club's DNA, I undoubtedly felt like a baby of the world or a toddler of the internet because the folks I used to be having so many of these formative conversations with on-line were from all around the world from all backgrounds. And I think that that is simply so extremely essential.
One in all my favourite things about Hack Club is since we don't this design a playbook that then everybody runs, every Hack Club at every school is different. And consequently, once you go to a Hack Membership in Kerala India, it's dramatically completely different than a Hack Club in America. It is different. It makes more sense for local context.
And in consequence, while you walk into a few of these clubs from all over the world, the native leaders have really requested, "What makes the most sense for me? What makes the most sense for different folks like me?" And I think that, particularly in areas where individuals really feel marginalized or they do not see a house for themselves or they haven't got position fashions in the same means that some extra conventional folks may need, my hope is that with Hack Club, that they will construct the home that they've at all times been searching for. And I think that the internet permits young individuals to do this in a method that simply wasn't doable earlier than.
Danny: That is such a cliche, but this is actually the following technology. This is the future. Do you have got any predictions about the future of the web? What are the issues that they're constructing which can be lacking in the prevailing system?
Zach: We face some of the largest challenges over the subsequent 50 years that humanity's ever had to reckon with. And I feel that we'd like a generation of younger individuals who not only have actual laborious abilities, they will truly do something from a builder perspective round these huge challenges however they also have the appropriate mindset and community to think a bit bit in another way.
The mindset is that if there's an issue, what does it take to fix it? It's extremely actionable fairly than really feel, we are born with problems and we should deal with these problems. There's nothing that we are able to do about it. It is a really empowered mindset.
They form of see technology not as an end in itself however as a instrument for every single factor needed to construct wonderful communities on this new world that we stay in.
Cindy: Such a superb imaginative and prescient. Let's jump to that future. What does it appear to be if we get this right? If we unleash all the Hack Clubbers and the other youngsters who're utilizing expertise and envisioning technologies to build a better world than the one we now have now. Take us to that world. What does it seem like?
Zach: I do not know if this is just too huge of an thought however I need to live in a world where there is a hacker president. But in additional concrete phrases, I want all of the revolutionary, thrilling stuff to be open supply as a result of it implies that abruptly the people who can have interaction with it, is not everyone who can afford to buy a license to their company however it is every single individual that has technical data in all the world and web entry. I need to live 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 motion. I feel one of many issues that distresses me in regards to the tales coming out of the early web is all of them appear to 1 guy who did one thing. And honestly, they're nearly all guys and guys of a certain coloration. And I feel that this manner of storytelling, I am unsure it was really all that true for those of us who lived through it however what I hear you is actually, really doubling down on this concept that it takes a movement, that people move together and that this sort of single person narrative will not be actually the narrative of excellent change and that you are working to attempt to construct communities and networks so that we get previous that.
Zach: And I feel that one factor that basically helps with that is the open source motion and the open supply group as a result of it means that in case you are coding on actual tasks, the connection between you and the particular person that wrote that line of code is closer than ever. And also you see, wow, initiatives like Ruby on Rails, they weren't constructed by one particular person. They were built by 2,000 people. And you see that related things with huge tasks, like Firefox, massive initiatives like Rust, these are issues that take tribes.
Cindy: Yeah. And let's just double down, we acquired to get these obstacles out of the best way. Children want to be able to entry all the knowledge. They want to be able to proper click on on their Chromebooks and look at supply and all of this stuff. 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, thank you a lot, Zach. I sit up for not only seeing what you have to provide you with sooner or later but seeing the subsequent 20 years of what these kids produce.
Zach: Thank you so much for having me here. It's such an honor to be able to affix you in this conversation. It is such an honor for Hack Clubbers to have their story and their struggles be a part of the conversation and for the work you're doing. Thanks, thank you, thanks, thank you, thanks.
Cindy: It goes each methods, Zach. You're elevating the subsequent era of EFF members, in all probability EFF staffers and possibly congressional and administrative staffers who've this in their bones. And that's the world. Simply understanding how technology works isn't sufficient. And I think that's actually clear from what you're doing is you're building networks and you are constructing moral and responsible frameworks for how do you be any individual who understands about tech but is utilizing it for good?
Cindy: Zach, thank you so much. This has been so fun talking to you and so inspiring. I agree, we started off and we had been speaking about the issues that you're having they usually're tremendously necessary. And of course that is the place EFF's rubber meets the road is making an attempt to get these obstacles out of the best way. However we ended in such a cheerful place when it comes to this future. So thank you.
Cindy: I so respect listening to about optimistic, young people finding, using and constructing the tools to make things better and the position that the internet is taking part in in both helping them join, and serving to them really construct this into a movement that goes to construct the tools which might be going to make a greater internet in the future.
Danny: A lot of this talk of the surveillance and the censorship of youngsters is wrapped this concept of maintaining them protected. After which Zach who's caught within the middle. He goes to the web sites of those makers of filter know-how the place they're actually claiming to be preventing college shootings and but we all need children to be safe but I do query whether this is absolutely 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 school directors, it is just clear that they are outgunned right here and we want to actually assist them in recognizing what children actually have to grow. I also really appreciated him speaking about coding as a type of self expression. Clearly that's close to and dear to my coronary heart as EFF began with the concept code is speech but also that this self expression is not simply in a constitutional sense. It's about a spot the place I might be myself, where I can actually be the real me and all of that popping out of the concept that persons are learning how you can code, this as a technique of self expression it is simply heartening.
Danny: You teach youngsters how to express themselves, whether it is code and speaking up after which they get to be a part of that debate. And I believe they're an essential a part of that debate.
Cindy: One of many issues that I actually beloved about the best way Zach talked in regards to the group he's building is it is being built by teenagers for teenagers, perhaps for the remainder of us too. But recognizing that this group must be designing the technologies and creating the technologies that this community needs. That where it must be centered. It reminds me of the conversation we had with Matt Mitchell, the place he talked about communities needing to construct the instruments that they want, whether they're in, the place he was in Harlem or in a rural area or somewhere around the globe. This community empowerment works not solely in geography but additionally within the distinction between being a child and being an grownup.
Cindy: Properly, 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 Membership or donate to assist support them, they're at hackclub.com. There are comparable organizations all across the country and all across the world. However supporting this work, I think is tremendously necessary to build a future web that we all wish to dwell in.
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