{"podcast":{"title":"Revolution.Social","slug":"revolution-social-7409931","podcast_index_feed_id":7409931,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/11425154c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://revolution.social/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/46229419/49a2b074e1d12f41.jpg","author":"Rabble a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath","episode_count":49,"summary":"A podcast about the future of social media and reclaiming our digital communities. Revolution.Social is hosted by technologist and community advocate Rabble, a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath — who was Twitter’s first employee and hired Jack Dorsey. In weekly interviews, Rabble will interview thought leaders, technologists, academics, and more about the need for a new social media \"bill of rights.\" Just as the original Bill of Rights protected individual freedoms from government overreach, we need fundamental protections from corporate control and surveillance capitalism. This is the start of a conversation about what developers are building, how they're building it, and what consumers need to be asking for. Guests will include Jack Dorsey (former CEO & co-founder of Twitter); Kara Swisher (host of On with Kara Swisher, co-host of Pivot); Cory Doctorow (science fiction author & former editor of Boing Boing); and Taylor Lorenz (founder of User Mag, host of Power User).","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T16:20:23.930135+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolution-social-7409931"},"episode":{"title":"Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Moral Compass (with Anil Dash)","slug":"silicon-valley-has-lost-its-moral-compass-with-anil-dash","published_at":"2026-02-19T08:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolution-social-7409931/silicon-valley-has-lost-its-moral-compass-with-anil-dash","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolution-social-7409931","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/divine01/episodes/Silicon-Valley-Has-Lost-Its-Moral-Compass-with-Anil-Dash-e3l6ofq","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/11425154c/podcast/play/121905082/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-23%2F426709638-44100-2-c030722233f5f4de.mp3","summary":"Anil Dash is a pioneering technologist, advocate for ethical tech, and former CEO of Glitch, who currently serves on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Looking back on his career, he says Silicon Valley has lost its moral compass because it no longer responds to shame. \"You stopped being able to say, don't do this thing, it makes you look bad,\" Anil says. \"Facebook never cared about that. And most of the product managers at OpenAI used to work at Facebook.” “If [they] were a person that joined Meta after they enabled the Rohingya genocide and then [they] went to work at OpenAI,” he adds, “And you're like, 'Hey, why does your product tell teenagers to self-harm?' They're going to be like, 'What's the problem?'\" Today on Revolution.Social, Anil and Rabble talk about the evolution of the independent web, the challenges of maintaining progressive values within the startup ecosystem, and how to use digital tools to foster a more democratic society. They also explore the backlash against AI, which Anil believes to be a manifestation of all the disruption the tech industry has caused in people's lives, and why that doesn't mean we have to give up on AI entirely. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 5:12 The History of Decentralization 12:07 AI Ethics and Intellectual Property 16:57 The Silicon Valley Playbook: Economic Disruption 24:50 What We Can Learn from Prince and Taylor Swift 31:18 The Culture of Curation: From Reblogging to Vine 41:16 The Decline of Corporate Shame and Accountability 46:15 AI as a Tech Industry Fashion Trend 54:15 Why Coding in AI Feels Better than Making Art 1:03:01 We Need a Rubric for Ethical, Human-Centric AI 1:08:46 Grassroots Resistance to Big Tech Follow Rabble on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rabble.nz Follow the podcast: https://episo…","meta_description":"Anil Dash is a pioneering technologist, advocate for ethical tech, and former CEO of Glitch, who currently serves on the board of the Electronic Frontier…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4370,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/revolution-social-7409931/episodes/silicon-valley-has-lost-its-moral-compass-with-anil-dash/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolution-social-7409931/silicon-valley-has-lost-its-moral-compass-with-anil-dash.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}