The Palestinian Ethical Alternative to Big Tech | UpScrolled founder Issam Hijazi
"Don't Be DJ Khaled"
When it was launched in June 2025, millions of users joined UpScrolled in just a few weeks making it the fastest growing social media platform to date.
In this episode of Occupied Tech, UpScrolled’s Palestinian founder Issam Hijazi joins Paul Biggar of Tech for Palestine to discuss his journey of building an ethical alternative to Big Tech that rejects surveillance capitalism, and why the future of technology depends on values, not just growth.
From sabotage and censorship to ethical product design, the challenges of raising investment without compromising principles, and the future of social media, this conversation explores what it takes to build technology that serves people instead of exploiting them.
Occupied Tech is a podcast by Tech for Palestine in collaboration with Palestine Deep Dive. Each episode explores how the global tech industry fuels Israel’s apartheid, occupation, and genocide, while also highlighting the brave individuals and organisations working to dismantle this system of oppression.
Just the word "tech" conjures up to many of us who are for earth, water, soil, air, food, housing, schools, and towns that are communities as FASCIST.
All tech is dirty, from dual use/purpose war war war and then digital gulags and social control. period!
Forests are burning (many torched by Jews of Talmud), and people are in desiccating lands, but we need this unSOCIAL media?
A farce.
How Much Doom Scrolling and Narrative Doom 'splaining Do You Need to Know that Money and the Monied Class are Your Destruction -- Death by 1,000 Cuts for Billions?
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/how-much-doom-scrolling-and-narrative