Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud

Why HN readers recommended it

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

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Punkcast

Topic

digital privacy and self-hosting

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2011–2018

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Stop listening to Bob Marley. Listen to Eben Molgen. Youtube: "Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud": [VIDEO] Stop going to Starbucks. Send money to The Freedom Box Foundation. [LINK] Otherwise they may prove Richard Stallman correct.

• "... 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 …

• 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: [VIDEO]