Freedom and Privacy in Our Lives, Our Governments, and Our Schools

Presented at The Eleventh HOPE (2016), July 24, 2016, noon (120 minutes)

If we don't control the program, it controls us. It is clearer every year that nonfree programs, beyond the basic injustice of giving the developer or owner unjust power over the users, also tends to be malware, for instance designed to restrict users or snoop on them. Since government agencies and schools require people to run software to exercise their rights, this software must all be free, but increasingly they impose use of nonfree software and commercial snooping services. We must now organize to demand that they stop.

Presenters:

• Richard Stallman
  Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and started the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. (GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, with or without changes. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today.) Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several doctorates honoris causa, and has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.

Links:

• https://xi.hope.net/schedule.html#-freedom-and-privacy-in-our-lives-our-governments-and-our-schools- (Conference Schedule)
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Eleventh HOPE (2016)/The Eleventh HOPE (2016) - Freedom and Privacy in Our Lives, Our Governments, and Our Schools.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0Q_9Qv3Qk

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