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Examples of
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Big Tech Threats to Education and Society as a Whole
What are the threats? Surveillance. Censorship. Restrictions.
Software that users can't control.
—From A Free Digital
Society, a speech by Richard Stallman, 2011.
Every sphere of our lives today has been permeated with proprietary
digital technologies that Big Tech uses as instruments of surveillance
and mistreatment. The main way to fight back this potent empire of
megacorporations is to empower citizens with the ability to inspect and
control the software they use. Entrusted with the mission to contribute
to the betterment of society, it is the responsibility of all
educational institutions to provide students with the means to exercise
their computer rights by teaching and installing only free/libre software at school. There
is no legitimate alternative to free software in schools. Free software
is an essential condition, not merely an option, to pursue their social
mission. Today more than
ever.
To learn more:
On Privacy at School
Many Governments Encourage Schools to Let Companies Snoop on Students
Educational Malware App “Along”
Resisting Proprietary Software
The Dangers of Proprietary Systems in Online Teaching
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