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Yanis Varoufakis About Turning Technology Back Against "Sources of Power"

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 05, 2024

WebM: Yanis Varoufakis on Technology (video)

THIS video of Varoufakis has been circulating lately.

Varoufakis explains why he, like Julian Assange, can believe that technology may be used to reverse the opacity associated with social control (at large scale) and mass surveillance. █

Varoufakis and Sanders

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