Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism — Code Is Law
What happens to democracy when software regulates what citizens can know, protect, communicate, and contest?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism by Maureen Webb as its lens, this investigation examines how code, networks, platforms, and digital infrastructure have become governing structures in modern society.
Webb follows the development of the hacker ethos from early computer communities and the Chaos Computer Club through free software, encryption…
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