‘my internet bed is broken’ is just the start

About this episode

<p>A few weeks ago on Monday, October 20, a major outage in Amazon Web Services took down a bunch of the Internet. How did an error in one data center in Virginia affect everything from Snapchat and Reddit to &lsquo;smartbeds&rsquo; to government services? Dexter talks to Dr. Corinne Cath, a cultural anthropologist and technology researcher, about how the &ldquo;cloud,&rdquo; and therefore the Internet, became mostly controlled by 3 big tech companies &ndash; Amazon, Microsoft, and Google &ndash; why that puts our democracy at risk, and what we can do to change it.</p> <p>Got something you&rsquo;re curious about? Hit us up <a href="mailto:killswitch@kaleidoscope.nyc">killswitch@kaleidoscope.nyc</a>, or @killswitchpod, or @dexdigi on IG or Bluesky.</p> <p>Read + Watch:&nbsp;</p> <p>Corinne&rsquo;s op-ed: <a href="https://www.techpolicy.press/amazon-cloud-outage-reveals-democratic-deficit-in-relying-on-big-tech/">https://www.techpolicy.press/amazon-cloud-outage-reveals-democratic-deficit-in-relying-on-big-tech/</a></p> <p>Our episode on AI and the environment:&nbsp;<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kill-switch/id1449757372?i=1000711126940">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kill-switch/id1449757372?i=1000711126940</a></p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>