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# Restore Online Freedom!
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LaTeX sources for my talk "Restore Online Freedom!" at
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[LibrePlanet 2016][lp2016]. The sources produce the slides; notes for the
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talk are included in the sources throughout, but are not compiled in any
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way.
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## Description
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Imagine a world where surveillance is the default and users must opt-in to
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privacy. Imagine that your every action is logged and analyzed to learn how
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you behave, what your interests are, and what you might do next. Imagine
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that, even on your fully free operating system, proprietary software is
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automatically downloaded and run not only without your consent, but often
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without your knowledge. In this world, even free software cannot be easily
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modified, shared, or replaced. In many cases, you might not even be in
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control of your own computing---your actions and your data might be in
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control by a remote entity, and only they decide what you are and are not
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allowed to do.
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This may sound dystopian, but this is the world you're living in right
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now. The Web today is an increasingly hostile, freedom-denying place that
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propagates to nearly every aspect of the average users' lives---from their
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PCs to their phones, to their TVs and beyond. But before we can stand up
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and demand back our freedoms, we must understand what we're being robbed of,
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how it's being done, and what can (or can't) be done to stop it.
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[lp2016]: https://www.libreplanet.org/2016/program/#day-2-timeslot-8-session-3
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