Al Jazeera, “Steal from the Capitalists”

As the Twitter co-creator returns to activism, his fellow hackers question the techniques he brings from Silicon Valley.

Evan “Rabble” Henshaw-Plath is a coder, activist, anarchist, and a hacker. He is also one of the original developers of Twitter.

Henshaw-Plath believes that, as a tech activist, his role is to promote social justice, and he is eager to empower civil society to influence politics through the use of software. He explains how TxTMob, a platform that enabled protesters to send text messages to large groups anonymously, formed the basis of Twitter.

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