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It feels like every time I find a podcast about security/networking/technology the hosts end up saying some pretty off-color stuff, or I look them up and they also host right wing podcasts. Are there any that are more leftist, hosted by LGBT peeps, or at least not actively bigoted ?

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[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 74 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Odd. I have never found a tech podcast that is right wing. All of them i have ever heard are done by lefties

[–] blah@lemmy.1204.org 22 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Same, I would actually be curious to listen to a right wing tech podcast as the two concepts clash so hard in my brain.

[–] lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not specifically about podcasts, but I think there's a minority (?) of privacy/security enthusiasts who are pretty overtly right-wing libertarians, often because those technologies are anti-establishment. Think Luke Smith. I've also met people in the tech sphere (both on the I love Big Tech as well as FOSS side) who have very traditionalist, borderline right-wing opinions.

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not specifically about podcasts, but I think there’s a minority (?) of privacy/security enthusiasts who are pretty overtly right-wing libertarians, often because those technologies are anti-establishment.

yeah--the "techno-libertarians", as i've personally taken to calling them. that tendency was also the case on reddit in the early days (and to some extent still influences the site's cultural lean) and seems to be particularly common among stereotypical Silicon Valley types. a big calling card of that group is usually waxing poetic about the need to preserve almost unfiltered freedom of speech even though no website trying to preserve that has ever gone well.

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