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Open Access Manifesto
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a … Continue reading
Posted in aaron schwartz, choice, communication, computers, control, corruption, ebooks, education, freedom, heroes, philosophy, science, scientists, technology
Tagged aaron schwartz, academic, capitalists, corporate, data, elsevier, information, manifesto, open access, publishers, research, restricted access, rights, scientific journals
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NYT Newspeak
Asylum is for people who are afraid to return to their own country because they fear persecution, unlawful imprisonment or even death because of their race, their ethnicity, their religion, their membership in particular social or political groups, or their … Continue reading
Posted in bureaucracy, censor, cigol, julian assange, technology
Tagged asylum, edward snowden, julian assange, news, Newspeak, NYT, obama, orwell, Putin, Russia, us
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Pedagogy of Idea of Power
A paper from much later Papert IBM Journal 2000 “What’s the big idea? Toward a pedagogy of idea power Here he distinguishes between the psychological (how a person is affected by a treatment) and epistemological (about ideas) aspects of learning … Continue reading
On Privacy…
Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we’re doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance. Too many wrongly characterize the debate as “security versus privacy.” The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it … Continue reading
Posted in bureaucracy, censor, cigol, communication, computers, concern, conspiracy, control, corruption, freedom, humans, morals, norms, politics, security, sociology, technology, transparency
Tagged intrusion, liberty, police state, privacy, security, tyranny
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I will not allow them to chill me
“We want to show the world that we are innovators. We want to show the world that cloud storage has a right to exist. And, of course, when you launch something like this, you can expect some controversy. The content … Continue reading
Posted in bureaucracy, computers, control, people, quotes, technology, wikileaks
Tagged cloud storage, copyright, kim dotcom, mega, megaupload, us
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Aaron Was a Criminal and So Are You
Make no mistake, Aaron was a criminal and, despite popular belief, there was no prosecutorial overreach. The US Attorney who oversaw his prosecution described her office’s actions as “appropriate” and, according to the law, she was telling the truth. The … Continue reading
Posted in babudom, computers, control, corruption, education, heroes, people, protest, technology
Tagged aaron swartz, copyright, hacktivist, justice, usa
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Sharing knowledge and learning collaboratively at schools
(This article was written for a college magazine.) We have a vision for a better society in which the values of sharing and collaborating knowledge and technical know-how form an integral part. There are two aspects to this issue. One … Continue reading
RMS on Success
“Success” is not our goal; we’re not here to win a race, we are here to win freedom. I didn’t write GCC with the idea of making a “better” C compiler. I wrote it so there would be a freedom-respecting … Continue reading
Posted in computers, free software, freedom, gnu, people, politics, quotes, technology
Tagged c, gcc, richard stallman, rms, software
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Explosives or Not
We have earlier seen some quotes from the book The Golem: What You Should Know About Science. There are two companion volumes to this book The Golem Unleashed: What You Should Know about Technology and Dr. Golem: How to think … Continue reading
Posted in airport, babudom, bureaucracy, choice, control, free software, images, India, machines, philosophy of science, science, scientists, security, technology, transport
Tagged bag scanners, experimenter's regress, golem, technologist's regress
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On-line Education | RMS
Educators, and all those who wish to contribute to on-line educational works: please do not to let your work be made non-free. Offer your assistance and text to educational works that carry free/libre licenses, preferably copyleft licenses so that all … Continue reading
Posted in ebooks, education, free software, politics, science education, technology
Tagged creative commons, online resources, open education
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