Free/Open Source Alternatives

• R.W. "Moose 🫎" Singh
• Associate Professor of Computer Science at JCCC
• Previously worked in web and software development
• I make indie video games in my free time
• Sometimes Flash animations using my 1999 copy of Macromedia Flash
• Grew up on the "good internet"
• I've been an Open Source enthusiast for a long time, and have spent a lot of time reading, researching, and thinking about ethics in tech

Library Bill of Rights

The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services.

I. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.

II. Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.

III. Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.

IV. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.

V. A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.

VI. Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use.

VII. All people, regardless of origin, age, background, or views, possess a right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use. Libraries should advocate for, educate about, and protect people’s privacy, safeguarding all library use data, including personally identifiable information.

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PeerTube

• PRISM Break

• About the Fediverse
• Getting started with Mastodon

• DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow
• The Disturbing Rise of Dark Patterns (chon digital)