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re:publica 2012 - Eben Moglen - Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media

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  • Presented by Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and History of Law
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SecurityHistory and culturePrivacy and surveillanceCryptographyOpen source

Eben Moglen argues that proprietary media and data-mining threaten human freedom, advocating for free software and encryption.

Media that spy on and data-mine the public are capable of destroying humanity's most precious freedom: freedom of thought. Ensuring that media remain structured to support rather than suppress individual freedom and civic virtue requires us to achieve specific free technology and free culture goals. Our existing achievements in these directions are under assault from companies trying to bottleneck human communications or own our common culture, and states eager to control their subjects' minds. In this talk--one of a series beginning with "The dotCommunist Manifesto" and "Die Gedanken Sind Frei"--I offer some suggestions about how the Free World should meet the challenges of the next decade. Find out more about re:publica: re-publica.de

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What people say. Recommended for its brilliant and well-formulated arguments on free software, privacy, and the history of encryption.

belornon Hacker News • Recommends

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When it comes to well formulated talks about free software, none seems to beat those from Stallman's lawyer, Eben Moglen. He knows very well how to speak to a crowd, and tends to use local references and languages to explain concepts (professor of law and history of law). Stallman has excellent skills in seeing problems in software before they get noticed by everyone else, but when I want to introduce someone to the philosophy of free software I would rather put on a talk like Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media from 2012 or the now 11 year old talk Die Gedanken Sind Frei from 2004. 1: link to this video 2: link
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Just take a look at Eben Moglen0, he is a very brilliant speaker and a brilliant man in general. Or Jérémie Zimmermann1 for the European side. Or Benjamin Bayart for the French side. 0 link to this video 1 link 2 link (in french)
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On “VPNs are not the solution to a policy problem”

…u got rid of the second amendment I still have the right to bear arms. Which makes me wonder, how well could the right to self defense argument be applied to encryption? It's almost like everyone forgot about the 90's crypto wars, but it makes me think of something Eben Moglen said about the 90's crypto wars being just a temporary setback to TPTB; link to this video…
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arminiusreturnson Hacker News • Mentions

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…why I still think anonymity is important on the internet, and lean towards burning accounts every couple of years on commenting platforms. This is also why I still value what others might call cesspools that are the chans, and of course onion sites et al. I tend to always think about this Eben Moglen talk (listen from timestamp for 4 or 5 mins) : link to this video…
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On “A court ruling in Austria could censor the internet worldwide”

…abusers attack, it also avoids the most common rhetorical abuse I see, which is overreliance on argument from authority by separating the identity of the person making the argument from the argument itself, and I could go on. I could go on... Do you really think the vast amount of negatives that come with your proposal would be worth the tradeoff? link to this video 1 1. "In 1995, there was a debate at Harvard Law School – four of us discussing the future of public key encryption and its control. I was on the side, I suppose, of freedom. It’s where I try to be. With me at that debate was a man called Daniel Weitzner who now works in the White House making Internet policy for the Obama administration.…
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arminiusreturnson Hacker News • Mentions

On “Why I Wrote PGP (1999)”

From an old comment of mine on the topic: link to this video 1 1. "In 1995, there was a debate at Harvard Law School – four of us discussing the future of public key encryption and its control. I was on the side, I suppose, of freedom. It’s where I try to be. With me at that debate was a man called Daniel Weitzner who now works in the White House making Internet policy for the Obama administration. On the other side was the then Deputy Attorney General of the United States and a lawyer in private practice named Stewart Baker who had been chief council to the National Security Agency, our listeners, and who was then in private life helping businesses to deal with the listeners. He then became, later o…
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arminiusreturnson Hacker News • Mentions

On “Doomed to repeat history? Lessons from the crypto wars of the 1990s (2015) [pdf]”

From an old comment of mine on the topic: link to this video 1 1. "In 1995, there was a debate at Harvard Law School – four of us discussing the future of public key encryption and its control. I was on the side, I suppose, of freedom. It’s where I try to be. With me at that debate was a man called Daniel Weitzner who now works in the White House making Internet policy for the Obama administration. On the other side was the then Deputy Attorney General of the United States and a lawyer in private practice named Stewart Baker who had been chief council to the National Security Agency, our listeners, and who was then in private life helping businesses to deal with the listeners. He then became, later o…
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