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PdF 2011 | Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves

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What it is

Eben Moglen's 2011 Personal Democracy Forum talk on the loss of anonymity and privacy on the internet. He proposes building an alternative net of personal servers, the idea behind FreedomBox.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited in privacy and surveillance threads as an early argument for personal servers and decentralization.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “Eben Moglen talks about how the internet is going to lose what made it great”

    Moglen on the internet losing anonymity and tracking.

    maeon3, 2011-07 · Recommendation · in “Why the Internet is America’s greatest weapon”

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Topics: eben moglen, freedombox, surveillance, decentralization, free software

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