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Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud

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  • Recommended by 3 people: 3 on Hacker News.
  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2011 to 2014.
  • Presented by Eben Moglen, founder of the Software Freedom Law Center
  • An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.

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Eben Moglen argues against the centralization of the web and outlines the vision for FreedomBox to restore digital privacy.

ISOC-NY1710-02 Eben Moglen's "Freedom in The Cloud' presentation at NYU Feb 5 2010. More info: isoc-ny.org/?p=1338 Spanish captions by Partido Pirata Argentino partidopirata.com.ar

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3 people recommend this

What people say. Recommended as a prophetic and foundational talk on the dangers of centralized cloud services and the importance of self-hosting.

vikinguxon Hacker News • Recommends

On “G8 agenda calls for "civilized Internet": monitored, governed, controlled, taxed”

Stop listening to Bob Marley. Listen to Eben Molgen. Youtube: "Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud": link to this video Stop going to Starbucks. Send money to The Freedom Box Foundation. link Otherwise they may prove Richard Stallman correct.
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bootloadon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Facebook Is Using You”

"... I follow a few high profile tech news source, but I never heard of Freedombox. ..." That's why it's important to read HN. Eben Moglen is one of the few lawyers I bother to listen too. It helps he has a CS background. Moglen did a talk at New York Technology Council & Internet Society, Friday, February 5, 2010 that outlined the idea behind the freedom box. I remember watching & listening to the recording just after the speech. It's worth the watch/listen to get the idea in full. The idea in short, "Own your own logs" . Third parties can't infer what they don't have. The talk is located here - link - link to this video or here for alternative AV formats ~ link
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lognon Hacker News • Recommends

On “YunoHost: Aiming to make hosting accessible”

Eben Moglen gave a great speech on what we're giving up by using centralized services. His call to action was to basically build what YunoHost now is. This video of the speech is an hour long but a good one: link to this video
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bootloadon Hacker News • Mentions

On “‘FreedomBox’ Is in Danger of an Early Death”

the background to the freedom box can be found in this talk "Freedom in The Cloud" , by Eben Moglen at NYU 2010Feb05 ~ link to this video
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bootloadon Hacker News • Mentions

On “It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web”

"... The idea that software should be free means that only software that isn't free gets polished to the level that anyone uses it. ..." Linux kernel? "... The Internet, which was supposed to be our great liberator and engine of learning, became George Orwell's bidirectional TV set. It's a TV set that watches you. ... and it all goes back to free. ..." Telephony isn't free and is spied on. Related but not quite. Relinquishing control of server logs is the source of the problem. cf: Eben Moglen, "Freedom in the Cloud" , Feb 5th 2010 @ NYU ~ link to this video
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jancsikaon Hacker News • Mentions

On “FreedomBox”

Here are two potential features Eben Moglen mentioned1 back in 2010: * it should know how to go and collect your stuff out of all the social networking places where you've got it * it should know how to send an encrypted backup of everything to your friends' servers (in the video you can hear two developers making "mmm" noises at that feature) Eight years later, does Freedombox have either of those two features? 1 link to this video
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