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Benjamin Sonntag
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Benjamin Sonntag's personal blog at benjamin.sonntag.fr covers politics and web. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-12, and you can follow it by feed.
26mentions?
4HN people?
2012–2021first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its write-up of Eben Moglen's re:publica talk on freedom of thought, free media and free technology, and on the risk of everything being remembered and surveilled.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Journal de bord d'un activiste à l'ère numérique
Most-linked posts?
- /Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-thought-requires-free-media2 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2012-12-30
- /Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-thought-requires-free-media2 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-01-20
What Hacker News says?
http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t...
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on “Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans”We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world. This should not actually be a complicated inquiry. http://snowdenandthefuture.info/events.html http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Free…
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on “An Open Letter to HN from EFF, Demand Progress, and Cory Doctorow”> If we forget, no other forgetting will ever happen. Everything will be remembered. Everything you read, all through life, everything you listened to, everything you watched, everything you searched for. -- Eben Moglen, https://benjamin.sonntag.fr/en/2012/moglen-at-republica-free...
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on “Internet of Snitches”We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world. This should not actually be a complicated inquiry. http://snowdenandthefuture.info/events.html I honestly don't understand why people value Stallma…
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on “Reasons not to use Facebook”We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world. This should not actually be a complicated inquiry. http://snowdenandthefuture.info/events.html http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Free…
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on “The Day We Fight Back”We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world. This should not actually be a complicated inquiry. http://snowdenandthefuture.info/events.html http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Free…
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on “The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone”Facebook and Spotify share a number of investors: billionaire Li Ka Shing has a stake in Facebook and Spotify. Yuri Milner’s DST Global, which owns roughly 10% of Facebook, is also in negotiations to buy a stake in Spotify. Facebook’s founding president and Napster founder Sean Parker, sits on the board of Spotify. http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t...
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on “Spotify and Facebook: Is that phishing?”From the adoption of printing by Europeans in the 15th century we began to be concerned primarily with access to printed material. The right to read, and the right to publish were the central subject of our struggle for freedom of thought for most of the last half millennium. The basic concern was for the right to read in private and to think and speak and act on the basis of a free and uncensored will. The primary…
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on “Germany planning to ‘massively′ limit privacy rights”So the primary form of collection that should concern us most is media that spy on us while we use them. Books that watch us read them, music that’s listen to us listen to it. Search boxes that report what we are searching for to whoever is searching for us and doesn’t know us yet. There is a lot of talk about data coming out of facebook: is it coming to me? is it coming to him? is it coming to them? They want you t…
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on “N.S.A. Examines Social Networks of U.S. Citizens”And lastly, we now know that the ‘Aurora’4 attacks on Google were at least partially about intercept. One thing we’ve learned from those attacks is that the Government is running intercept systems on their networks, and not only that but other ‘eavesdroppers’ are trying to get access to those intercept systems. So what we are seeing is as more and more data accumulates in these places, it becomes more and more valua…
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on “Privacy Badger”Probably you already had an account, called a shadow account -- when signing up, you merely asked for your password for a limited access login. So the primary form of collection that should concern us most is media that spy on us while we use them. Books that watch us read them, music that’s listen to us listen to it. Search boxes that report what we are searching for to whoever is searching for us and doesn’t know…
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on “LinkedIn sued by users who say it hacked their e-mail accounts”"All right, among us now we that we are all in private just us girls all let our hair down" he didn’t had much hair even then but he let it down "We are not going to prosecute your client Mr Zimmermann he said public key encryption will become available we fought a long loosing battle against it but it was just a delaying tactic" and then he looked around the room and he said "But nobody cares about anonymity do the…
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on “Joe Biden tried to ban email encryption back in 1991”For the last thousands years, we, our mothers, and our fathers have been struggling for freedom of thought we have sustained many horrible losses and some immense victories and we are now at a very serious time. From the adoption of printing by Europeans in the 15th century we began to be concerned primarily with access to printed material. The right to read, and the right to publish were the central subject of our…
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on “Companies to face criminal offence if they tip off U.K. users about snooping”We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world. This should not actually be a complicated inquiry. https://archive.org/details/EbenMoglen-WhyFreedomOfThoughtRe... https://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Mogl…
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on “Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from Non-Users”An institution directed at the control of thought in the European world, based around weekly surveillance of the conduct and thoughts of every human being. Based around the censorship of all reading material and in the end based upon the ability to predict and to punish unorthodox thought. http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t... We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with th…
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on “NSA classifies Linux Journal readers as extremists”This is a technocrat description of national socialism based on technology and corporatism. Been there, done that. Eben has already warned about the totalitarianism not of the future, but of the present: http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t...
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on “What I've Been Thinking About”Privacy is freedom of thought. http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/berlin-keynote.... https://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-...
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on “With Snowden in the background, privacy takes a back seat to security”Relevant: Eben Moglen - Why Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media and Why Free Media Require Free Technology Video [0] https://archive.org/details/EbenMoglen-WhyFreedomOfThoughtRe... Transcript [1] https://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-...
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on “Facebook has a mysterious team working on tech that sounds like mind reading”Moglen at Re:Publica: Freedom of thought requires free media On the other side was the then deputy attorney general of the United States and a lawyer in private practice named Stewart Baker who had been chief council to the National Security Agency our listeners and who was then in private life helping businesses to deal with the listeners. He then became later on the deputy for policy planning in the Department of…
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on “Users Get Routed: Traffic Correlation on Tor by Realistic Adversaries [pdf]”In order to combat ongoing human rights violations, human rights have to be abolished bit by bit. There is nothing benign or misguided about this to me, this is calculated and predatory. Omniscience and omnipotence by states and corporations lead by very human, sometimes sick people, may make the world "safer" from small fish (and even that is not clear), but might also make powerful sadists untouchable. It might ma…
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on “David Cameron: Twitter and Facebook privacy is unsustainable”Once upon a time, there was a man here who built stuff, in Berlin for Albert Speer his name was. Philip Johnson and he was a wonderful artist and a moral monster. And he said he went to work building buildings for the nazis because they had all the best graphics. And he meant it, because he was an artist, as Mr Jobs was an artist. But artistry is no guarantee of morality. https://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Pub…
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on “George-Eugène Haussmann, the man who created Paris”Thank you very much, you made it worth burning all that YC karma. “You can't solve social problems with software.” – Marcus Ranum ps: actually, it is worse: https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-18-archive.... http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t...
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on “Reset the Net Privacy Pack”We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world. This should not actually be a complicated inquiry. http://snowdenandthefuture.info/events.html http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Free…
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on “Data protection: Angela Merkel proposes Europe network”[Moglen] said "You mean The United States government is, from now on, going to keep a list of everybody every American knows. Do you think by any chance that should require a law?" And he just laugh because they did it in a press release in the middle of the night on Wednesday when it was raining https://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-...
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on “Lawrence Lessig: Technology Will Create New Models for Privacy Regulation”We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world. This should not actually be a complicated inquiry. http://snowdenandthefuture.info/events.html http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Free…
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on “Information Consumerism: The Price of Hypocrisy”We don’t have much time. The generation that grew up outside the Net is the last generation that can fix it without force. http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t...
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on “The [USA] Government is Profiling You”