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1984+30: GNU speech to defeat e-newspeak

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1984+30: GNU speech to defeat e-newspeak
LibrePlanet 2014

In Orwell's 1984, Newspeak had its vocabulary reduced so that subversive ideas could not be expressed. Likewise, user-programmable general-purpose computers are losing ground to ones that don't let users express the computations they wish to perform, unless they are available in exclusive appstores. Unable to program, users lose the freedom to improve software, and even the notion that they could! Failing to realize the importance of essential software freedoms, they fail to demand them! That's double plus unGNU! Let's fix it!

Speakers: Alexandre Oliva