A Free Digital Society - What Makes Digital Inclusion Good or
Bad? Transcription of a lecture by Richard M. Stallman at
Sciences Po in Paris, October 19, 2011. (A video of this lecture
is available.) Table of Contents - Restricted data formats -
Software that isn't free - The four freedoms of free software -
The GNU Project and the Free Software movement - Free software
and education - Internet services - Computers for voting - The
war on sharing - Supporting the arts - Rights in cyberspace
Projects with the goal of digital inclusion are making a big
assumption. They are assuming that participating in a digital
society is good, but that's not necessarily true. Being in a
digital society can be good or bad, depending on whether that
digital society is just or unjust. There are many ways in which
our freedom is being attacked by digital technology. Digital
technology can make things worse, and it will, unless we fight
to prevent it. Therefore, if we have an unjust digital society,
we should cancel these project