We have a chance, a real chance, and if we support open and free systems, and the organizations that fight for them – EFF, Bits of Freedom, EDRI, ORG, CC, Netzpolitik, La Quadrature du Net, and all the others, who are thankfully, too numerous to name here – we may yet win the battle, and secure the ammunition we’ll need for the war. Cory Doctorow

This article is a prettification of this Wikisource Transcription and is a transcription of Cory Doctorow’s 2011 speech. I try to be 100% true to its source.

  • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Freedom in the future will require us to have the capacity to monitor our devices and set meaningful policy on them, to examine and terminate the processes that run on them, to maintain them as honest servants to our will, and not as traitors and spies working for criminals, thugs, and control freaks.

    This is the crux of the entire article and the entire debate. If we don’t control our devices, then the devices will be used to control us.