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You do not yet realize, but even as you read this, a battle rages in our midst. It is a battle for freedom, for sovereignty, and for our collective future. The fundamental dialectic of our struggle is this: will we be enslaved by our technology, or liberated by it? | |||
You do not yet realize it, but even as you read this, a battle rages in our midst. It is a battle for freedom, for sovereignty, and for our collective future. The fundamental dialectic of our struggle is this: will we be enslaved by our technology, or liberated by it? | |||
The question is as old as civilization itself, and speaks directly to the trajectory of history's arc. Still, as the pace of innovation acceleartes, it becomes increasingly clear that something new and still unnervving approaches. Take a long enough view of the processes that surround us, and you'll begin to recognize the singular gravity of the here-and-now. This very moment is the dawn of a new age - information moves the world now, and there's no going back. | The question is as old as civilization itself, and speaks directly to the trajectory of history's arc. Still, as the pace of innovation acceleartes, it becomes increasingly clear that something new and still unnervving approaches. Take a long enough view of the processes that surround us, and you'll begin to recognize the singular gravity of the here-and-now. This very moment is the dawn of a new age - information moves the world now, and there's no going back. | ||
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It was in full cognizance of this notion, and in service to our collective freedom that Richard Stallman started the Free Software Foundation. The Free Network Movement is here to continue that tradition, and to intensify the struggle for freedom as we enter this most critical hour. | It was in full cognizance of this notion, and in service to our collective freedom that Richard Stallman started the Free Software Foundation. The Free Network Movement is here to continue that tradition, and to intensify the struggle for freedom as we enter this most critical hour. | ||
The free software movement has thrived in part because they have made it exceedingly easy to differentiate between free and unfree code. It is in this spirit that we aim to define exactly what | The free software movement has thrived in part because they have made it exceedingly easy to differentiate between free and unfree code. They have done so through the definition of free software embodied in the GNU project's 'four freedoms.' It is in this spirit that we aim to define here exactly what it means to say that a network is free. We hope that the existence of such a definition will highlight the ways in which our current network, the Internet, is unfree, and help illuminate the path to a freer world. | ||
We specify five freedoms. In a word each, they are access, transmission, storage, authentication, and consignment. | |||
0) The freedom to access the network without tariff. | |||
1) The freedom to transmit bits from peer to peer without the prospect of interception or censorship. | |||
2) The freedom to choose where one's bits are stored. | |||
3) The freedom to maintain a trusted network identity, and to represent oneself. | |||
4) The freedom to share or not share one's own bits as one sees fit. | |||
Revision as of 23:01, 27 April 2011
ideas to think about, make better, hack on, from venessa miemis:
- access to a global communication infrastructure should be a human right
- i should be able to exchange value directly with a peer without third party involvement
- i should have control over the data that i generate
- it is my right to know how third parties are using my personal data
- i should have the capacity to allow or deny access to aspects of my data
here it comes:
You do not yet realize it, but even as you read this, a battle rages in our midst. It is a battle for freedom, for sovereignty, and for our collective future. The fundamental dialectic of our struggle is this: will we be enslaved by our technology, or liberated by it?
The question is as old as civilization itself, and speaks directly to the trajectory of history's arc. Still, as the pace of innovation acceleartes, it becomes increasingly clear that something new and still unnervving approaches. Take a long enough view of the processes that surround us, and you'll begin to recognize the singular gravity of the here-and-now. This very moment is the dawn of a new age - information moves the world now, and there's no going back.
It was in full cognizance of this notion, and in service to our collective freedom that Richard Stallman started the Free Software Foundation. The Free Network Movement is here to continue that tradition, and to intensify the struggle for freedom as we enter this most critical hour.
The free software movement has thrived in part because they have made it exceedingly easy to differentiate between free and unfree code. They have done so through the definition of free software embodied in the GNU project's 'four freedoms.' It is in this spirit that we aim to define here exactly what it means to say that a network is free. We hope that the existence of such a definition will highlight the ways in which our current network, the Internet, is unfree, and help illuminate the path to a freer world.
We specify five freedoms. In a word each, they are access, transmission, storage, authentication, and consignment.
0) The freedom to access the network without tariff.
1) The freedom to transmit bits from peer to peer without the prospect of interception or censorship.
2) The freedom to choose where one's bits are stored.
3) The freedom to maintain a trusted network identity, and to represent oneself.
4) The freedom to share or not share one's own bits as one sees fit.