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The EFF Hosts a 'John Perry Barlow Symposium' Next Saturday (eff.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the electronic-frontiers dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The EFF is announcing "a celebration of the life and leadership of the recently departed founder of EFF, John Perry Barlow," to be held next Saturday at the Internet Archive in San Francisco from 2:00 to 6:00. The event will also be streamed live on the Internet Archive's YouTube channel.

Confirmed speakers include Edward Snowden, Cory Doctorow, EFF co-founders John Gilmore and Mitch Kapor, and Shari Steele, the executive director of the Tor Project (and a former EFF executive director).

14 comments

  1. one more time with feeling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    cease fire (wmd on credit, deception, starvation, censorship etc...) stand down... there are moms & babys in every town the world around... that's the spirit.. thanks again..

    thanks eff for trying to help us keep our digits our own while learning to share, communicate effectively etc....

  2. Re:EditorDavid is fat and a gay by Snotnose · · Score: 2

    Don't really give a shit as long as he does a good job.

  3. Old This American LIfe Segment by Kunedog · · Score: 1

    Here's an old TAL segment about him meeting the love of his life (at the time):
    https://www.thisamericanlife.o...

  4. yfw normalfags destroyed the internet in less than by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Surveillance capitalists of the industrial world, you dynamic startups of venture capital and bullshit. I come from meat-space. On behalf of the future, I ask that you provide space for me to post my selfies. I'm not willing to pay fuckall, but you can sell all my personal information to the highest bidder.
    You are welcome among us. You have total sovereignty where we gather.

    captcha: oppress

  5. Aw shucks by arth1 · · Score: 1

    Too bad he won't attend.

    That aside, it's not strictly a symposium, if there's no discussions and just speeches. Purists might require that there be drinking too, but at least there should be discussions among everyone.

    But I hope everyone who does speak have something useful to say. That would be honouring him more than platitudes will.

  6. Silo mentalities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's a shame the EFF is just another boys club. The EFF lacks any understanding of social concerns and internationalism.

    1. Re:Silo mentalities by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1

      That's weird, because it seems to me that the EFF is *all* about social concerns (of modern electronics and computing, which is the "E" in its name, obviously).

      --
      Ezekiel 23:20
    2. Re:Silo mentalities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I tried discussing issues with the EFF chairman. He can't look beyond his own nose and forces every discussion back to technology. You may as well discuss social policy with petrolheads and the NRA. I gave up on his humblebragging nationalistic libertarianism as a waste of time.

    3. Re:Silo mentalities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Like what issues? Perhaps they are not EFF's business. Don't make EFF stretch too much or it will not be able to do any of it's tasks.

    4. Re:Silo mentalities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Like it's even able to do what are supposed to be its tasks. Let's face reality, the EFF is useless now. The war is lost. It has been lost before it could even be properly fought. Those who claim to "fight" for "freedom of the net" or other nonsense are either delusionally naive or are attention-seeking (and possibly money-seeking) whores. It's over. It's been over since a long time. The people spoke and we found out to our chagrin that we were a minority, easily ignored. So we huffed and puffed and nobody noticed. And as we grow old and tired, no new generation is taking our place. We're the rear guard of nothing. "Cyberspace" was never meant to be. The great white hope of internet freedom is the nightmare of inescapable surveillance. There's nothing anyone can do. Get over it.

    5. Re:Silo mentalities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Same experience.

      With "there is no content, it's all bits, and bits want to be free" mantra, EFF was one nail in the coffin of small publishers. The net result is that today only handful of giant monopolies can sell content, the rest is reduced to begging for voluntary donations.

  7. What! by Mister+Liberty · · Score: 1

    No McKinley "Mackey" Bear!?

  8. Slashdot's worst April Fool's joke ever by fishfrys · · Score: 1

    Dyslexically read that John Perry Barlow was to host symposium and thought it Slashdot's worst April Fool's joke ever.