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    Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud

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    3 HN recommenders · recommended in 6 months, 2011–2018

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    57:10 · 49K views · Feb 9, 2010

    Eben Moglen speaks at NYU in 2010 about freedom in the cloud, arguing that centralized services and handing over personal data and server logs erode privacy and freedom. The talk lays out the motivation for FreedomBox, a personal server for your own data.

    HN recommends it as the foundational talk behind FreedomBox and the case against centralized web services.

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    6 comments from Hacker News

    1. @bootloadFeb 2012· in “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] - this video or here for alternative AV formats ~ [LINK]

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    2. @vikinguxMay 2011· in “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": 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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    3. @lognJun 2014· in “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: this video

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    4. @bootloadAug 2014· in “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 ~ this video

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    5. @jancsikaApr 2018· in “FreedomBox”

      Here are two potential features Eben Moglen mentioned[1] 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] this video

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