Bernie Sanders: Our Campaign Is About People Not Tech

Bernie Sanders, Rally at Pittsburgh University, Sunday April 14.Bernie Sanders has never been closer to delivering a "Revolution" in American life.

If Sanders continues to ride high through Super Tuesday and beyond he'll enter the Oval Office staring down a range of tech issues tied to his base agenda.

"Our campaign is about people," said Ramesh Srinivasan, a Sanders campaign surrogate and professor at UCLA who studies the relationship between technology, politics, and society.

Sanders wants to break up Big Tech, ratchet up taxes on the new tech elite, and reform a system he sees as unfairly favoring the winners in Silicon Valley over workers struggling to deal with its endless innovations.

The Sanders campaign thinks there are possibilities for digital currencies to be more agile in supporting peer to peer transactions, and bypassing problematic elements in the financial system.

Attending the Charleston Sanders event, I met several Bernie supporters who want greater government action to secure personal privacy.

Srinivasan did not say whether the Sanders campaign is mulling an exact analog, but said "We will be working on developing a national privacy law," said Srinivasan.

Sanders wants tech companies to share their profits more equitably, even among their own staffs.

BERN, the Sanders campaign app, is encouraging users to have in-depth face-to-face conversations with people they know.

Before Sanders emerged onstage in Charleston, a lineup of speakers warmed up the crowd, the risers behind them packed with Sanders supporters waving signs.