Is the World Too Dependent on American Tech? (Dutch Journalist Interview)

Techlore Talks brings you in-depth conversations with the experts at the forefront of digital rights, privacy and security.

This is a different kind of Techlore Talks. Henry sits down with Marloes de Koning, a Dutch tech reporter from NRC. This wide-ranging conversation explores tech policy from a journalist's perspective, and asks hard questions about age verification, digital sovereignty, news consumption, the rules & role of journalism, and more.

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Episode Timestamps

00:00 INTRO
01:27 EARLY YEARS IN JOURNALISM
02:25 LEARNING & WRITING ABOUT TECH
04:28 DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY
07:08 LOCATION OF DATA/COMPANIES
09:01 THE RULES OF JOURNALISM
10:31 THE ROLE OF JOURNALISM
19:11 INCORRECT ASSUMPTIONS
20:34 HOW TO FIND TRUSTWORTHY NEWS
30:06 IS CONSUMING NEWS EVEN WORTH IT?
34:55 AGE VERIFICATION
45:13 DO PEOPLE CARE ABOUT PRIVACY?
53:18 MARLOES' DIGITAL RIGHTS JOURNEY
55:19 WHAT'S THE END GOAL?
57:53 HOW TO FOLLOW MARLOES
59:06 OUTRO

Episode Sources

• NRC: https://www.nrc.nl
• Twitter/X: https://x.com/MarloesdeK
• Marloes' Age Verification article: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/04/19/het-hoofdpijndossier-van-de-porno-industrie-controleren-hoe-oud-je-bezoekers-zijn-a4196562
• Marloes' Tornado Cash article: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/03/25/hoe-een-rus-uit-amstelveen-met-zijn-cryptomixer-voor-de-rechter-in-den-bosch-belandt-a4194203
• Marloes' Birthday of the Cookie article: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/11/hoe-het-internet-een-geheugen-kreeg-a4868671