micu
2011-03-08 19:14:48 UTC
Hi there,
FOSDEM 2011. But instead of elaborating more on it, here are two more
You can get an OGG Theora version of the video here:
<http://videobin.org/v/3/3zo.ogg>
A transcript of the talk can be found here
<http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2011/fosdem/moglen-fosdem-keynote.html>
This whole post on my blog:
<http://www.micuintus.de/2011/03/08/why-political-liberty-depends-on-software-freedom-more-than-ever/>
Kind regards,
micu
The right net brings freedom and the wrong net brings tyranny because
it all depends on how the code works.
Just now, I finished watching an outstanding talk Eben Moglen gave atit all depends on how the code works.
FOSDEM 2011. But instead of elaborating more on it, here are two more
What has happened in Iran, in Egypt, in Tunisia?and what will happen
in other societies over the next few years?demonstrates the enormous
political and social importance of social networking. But everything
we know about technology tells us that the current forms of social
network communication, despite their enormous current value for
politics, are also intensely dangerous to use.
They are too centralized, they are too vulnerable to state
retaliation and control. The design of their technology, like the
design of almost all unfree software technology, is motivated more
by business interests seeking profit than by technological interests
seeking freedom.
As a result of which, we are watching political movements of enormous
value, capable of transforming the lives of hundreds of millions of
people, resting on a fragile basis, like, for example, the courage
of Mr. Zuckerberg, or the willingness of Google to resist the state,
where the state is a powerful business partner and a party Google
cannot afford frequently to insult.
Software is what the 21st century is made of. What steel was to the
economy of the 20th century, what steel was to the power of the 20th
century, what steel was to the politics of the 20th century,
software is now. It is the crucial building block, the component out
of which everything else is made, and, when I speak of everything
else, I mean of course freedom, as well as tyranny, as well as
business as usual, as well as spying on everybody for free all the
time.
Here is the talk: in other societies over the next few years?demonstrates the enormous
political and social importance of social networking. But everything
we know about technology tells us that the current forms of social
network communication, despite their enormous current value for
politics, are also intensely dangerous to use.
They are too centralized, they are too vulnerable to state
retaliation and control. The design of their technology, like the
design of almost all unfree software technology, is motivated more
by business interests seeking profit than by technological interests
seeking freedom.
As a result of which, we are watching political movements of enormous
value, capable of transforming the lives of hundreds of millions of
people, resting on a fragile basis, like, for example, the courage
of Mr. Zuckerberg, or the willingness of Google to resist the state,
where the state is a powerful business partner and a party Google
cannot afford frequently to insult.
Software is what the 21st century is made of. What steel was to the
economy of the 20th century, what steel was to the power of the 20th
century, what steel was to the politics of the 20th century,
software is now. It is the crucial building block, the component out
of which everything else is made, and, when I speak of everything
else, I mean of course freedom, as well as tyranny, as well as
business as usual, as well as spying on everybody for free all the
time.
You can get an OGG Theora version of the video here:
<http://videobin.org/v/3/3zo.ogg>
A transcript of the talk can be found here
<http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2011/fosdem/moglen-fosdem-keynote.html>
This whole post on my blog:
<http://www.micuintus.de/2011/03/08/why-political-liberty-depends-on-software-freedom-more-than-ever/>
Kind regards,
micu
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