Edward Snowden: Censorship Resistance, Cyber States, Privacy | Logos Podcast with Jarrad Hope

Edward Snowden is a former intelligence contractor and whistleblower, responsible for alerting the world to the existence of a pervasive, secret, illegal surveillance program conducted by the NSA against the American people. Jarrad Hope is the cofounder of Logos, a grassroots movement building the technology and community that will launch corruption-resistant institutions. JOIN THE COMMUNITY Logos Twitter: Logos Discord: RESOURCES: Edward Snowden X - Edward Snowden Substack - Jarrad Hope X - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 01:00 A look back at the last 10 years of surveillance 07:50 Post September 11th Surveillance scheme 09:45 A new era of presumed mass surveillance and the loss of a free internet 14:10 Beyond omnipresent oppression 15:30 Why should people care about privacy? Privacy is power 19:12 How did your politics evolve over the years? A meta game of politicians. 25:27 Logos and why the politics of this project matter. 30:30 Recognizing cyberspace as the fifth domain of conflict. 33:40 Reform or Revolution? 36:39 Why the decentralisation movement is so important. Order via protocol instead of law 41:48 Combining resistance, privacy, and technology 47:35 Logos – Infrastructure for Network States 53:05 Decentralising access to the internet. Tornado Cash, VPN, TOR, and network blocks 57:30 Catalan Independence Referendum. Decentralized technology, mesh network, IPFS 1:02:20 How economies work and defining private property 1:06:40 Neutrality, Crypto, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). 1:12:20 Encrypted content, private, secure messaging, and metadata 1:16:20 Government forced backdoors into encryption schemes 1:18:50 Ensuring the freedom of future generations