Hi there,
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 at FOSDEM 2011. But instead of elaborating more on it, here are two more quotes from the speech:
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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BSLBvwyUEs
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
Le 08/03/2011 20:14, micu a écrit :
Here is the talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BSLBvwyUEs
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/
Hello micu,
Thanks for all of this.
There has also been a lot of work on this talk recently on the Translators mailing list (mostly thanks to stelios), where we started making subtitles for this video. The subtitles are already available in English and Greek, and the French version is "work in progress" (i.e. "I wish I had more time to do it").
The current work is available on Universal Subtitles, a very nice (and FS-powered) website where you can subtitle videos in multiple languages and that works with multiple formats (YouTube, other .flv, and various HTML5-compatible formats). Here is the link: http://universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/MXaB9TJJoGAJ/
I also converted the original .avi video to Ogg Theora, WebM and H.264, first in the original resolution, then in "medium" and "small" versions that can be better for streaming. They are all available here: http://fichiers.schnouki.net/fsfe/fosdem2011/ (it also includes a small HTML5 + JavaScript player that supports multiple subtitle tracks)
If you are motivated, any other translation of the subtitles would be really appreciated :) (you can do that either on Universal Subtitles, or offline with a subtitle editor such as Gaupol...)
Let's spread the word!
Hi Micu,
* micu micuintus@gmx.de [2011-03-08 20:14:48 +0100]:
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 at FOSDEM 2011. But instead of elaborating more on it, here are two more quotes from the speech:
This topic was also covered in the March newsletter: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201103.en.html
Regards, Matthias