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patents and extensions of copyright laws. His battle is, as he told
us last year, against what he calls extreme capitalism. His GNU
operating system with Linux was the first Free operating system that
-could run on a PC. Richard Stallman says <q>it's all about
-freedom</q>, a cause which goes beyond software; and we could talk
+could run on a PC. Richard Stallman says “it's all about
+freedom”, a cause which goes beyond software; and we could talk
about the others he's identified, surveillance and censorship, because
he joins me now, hello.</dd>
@@ -187,11 +187,11 @@
<dd>I don't think I can excuse massive violations of human rights by
saying that the public is maddened and supports it. Especially, why
are they so maddened? Because of a constant propaganda campaign
-telling you <q>Be terrified of terrorists</q>, <q>throw away your
-human rights and everyone else's because you're so scared of these
-terrorists</q>. It's disproportionate, we have to keep these dangers
-in their proportion, there isn't a campaign saying <q>be terrified of
-getting in a car</q> but maybe there ought to be.</dd>
+telling you “Be terrified of terrorists”, “throw
+away your human rights and everyone else's because you're so scared of
+these terrorists”. It's disproportionate, we have to keep these
+dangers in their proportion, there isn't a campaign saying “be
+terrified of getting in a car” but maybe there ought to be.</dd>
<dt>[06:23]<br />
KH</dt>
@@ -204,9 +204,9 @@
OK, that's a sensible measure.</dd>
<dt>KH</dt>
-<dd>But are you? I would have thought that you would have said <q>why
-would they spend money reinforcing the cabin doors because hijackers
-are a minor issue</q>.</dd>
+<dd>But are you? I would have thought that you would have said
+“why would they spend money reinforcing the cabin doors because
+hijackers are a minor issue”.</dd>
<dt>RMS</dt>
<dd>I'm not against spending a little bit of money.</dd>
@@ -386,9 +386,9 @@
that they're constantly saying where you are, and I just don't want to
participate in a system like that, I think people shouldn't. It would
be very convenient for me to have a cellphone, I'm not one of those
-people who would, who says <q>I resent the fact that people can call
-me</q>, it's convenient when people can call me, but I'm not going to
-do it that way.</dd>
+people who would, who says “I resent the fact that people can
+call me”, it's convenient when people can call me, but I'm not
+going to do it that way.</dd>
<dt>[15:33]<br />
KH</dt>
@@ -417,15 +417,16 @@
<dt>RMS</dt>
<dd>Well I'm sorry, when I say extreme capitalism I'm talking about a
-philosophy, and that philosophy says <q>the market should control
+philosophy, and that philosophy says “the market should control
everything, everything should be for sale, and business should be
-allowed to dominate politics and get the laws it wants</q>, which is
-very different from mere capitalism, which says <q>within a society
-which we set up to protect peoples rights and so on, there are lots of
-things that people should be free to do, and make businesses to do
-them, as they wish</q>. That difference is why today's form of
-capitalism is running wild and why we see free exploitation treaties
-which basically undermine democracy and turn it in to a sham.</dd>
+allowed to dominate politics and get the laws it wants”, which
+is very different from mere capitalism, which says “within a
+society which we set up to protect peoples rights and so on, there are
+lots of things that people should be free to do, and make businesses
+to do them, as they wish”. That difference is why today's form
+of capitalism is running wild and why we see free exploitation
+treaties which basically undermine democracy and turn it in to a
+sham.</dd>
<dt>KH</dt>
<dd>What are you talking about there?</dd>
@@ -439,16 +440,16 @@
any time the people are demanding that a government protect the
environment, or the public health, or the general standard of living,
or anything else that's more important than just who's going to buy
-and sell what, companies can say <q>we're against this, and if you do
-this we'll just move our operations elsewhere</q> and the politicians
-now have a wonderful excuse for why they're not going to do it. Of
-course it was they who decided to adopt that treaty in the first place
-which they shouldn't have done. But then a lot of these treaties go
-beyond that, and they explicitly deny democracy. Now the US had a law
-that said it wouldn't sell tuna — you weren't allowed to sell
-tuna in the US if it had been caught in a way that endangered
-dolphins. Well that law had to be scrapped because of the World Trade
-Organization, that's just one example.</dd>
+and sell what, companies can say “we're against this, and if you
+do this we'll just move our operations elsewhere” and the
+politicians now have a wonderful excuse for why they're not going to
+do it. Of course it was they who decided to adopt that treaty in the
+first place which they shouldn't have done. But then a lot of these
+treaties go beyond that, and they explicitly deny democracy. Now the
+US had a law that said it wouldn't sell tuna — you weren't
+allowed to sell tuna in the US if it had been caught in a way that
+endangered dolphins. Well that law had to be scrapped because of the
+World Trade Organization, that's just one example.</dd>
<dt>KH</dt>
<dd>Because it was regarded as a trade barrier.</dd>
@@ -835,11 +836,11 @@
Free Software that can break digital handcuffs. More and more
products are designed with digital handcuffs, that is features to stop
the user from doing things. So nowadays when I hear about a new
-product or a new service my first thought is <q>what's malicious in
-that?</q>, <q>how is it designed to restrict what you can do?</q>.
-And these products are very malicious, for instance there is the
-Amazon Kindle, it's an e-book reader, and they call it the Kindle to
-express what it's designed to do to our books.</dd>
+product or a new service my first thought is “what's malicious
+in that?”, “how is it designed to restrict what you can
+do?”. And these products are very malicious, for instance there
+is the Amazon Kindle, it's an e-book reader, and they call it the
+Kindle to express what it's designed to do to our books.</dd>
<dt>KH</dt>
<dd>That's not true :-)</dd>
@@ -873,8 +874,8 @@
<dt>[36:13]<br />
RMS</dt>
-<dd>I buy books from bookstores, yes I go to a store and I say <q>I
-want that one</q>.</dd>
+<dd>I buy books from bookstores, yes I go to a store and I say
+“I want that one”.</dd>
<dt>KH</dt>
<dd>And you hand money over for it? Even though you think that that's
@@ -920,10 +921,10 @@
time, I'm busy doing other things. I don't think social network sites
are necessarily bad but they lead people into foolish activities. So
I think an ethical social network site should warn people, and every
-time you connect to it it should warn you, <q>anything you post here
-might get known to the public no matter how you set up settings about
-supposed privacy. So if you don't want it published, you shouldn't
-say it here.</q></dd>
+time you connect to it it should warn you, “anything you post
+here might get known to the public no matter how you set up settings
+about supposed privacy. So if you don't want it published, you
+shouldn't say it here.”</dd>
<dt>KH</dt>
<dd>That's a nice warning. Thank you, it's very nice to talk to you
@@ -937,16 +938,16 @@
tell the public. So the point is that the; many governments,
including of course the US are conspiring in secret to impose new
restrictions on us relating to copyright and part of their latest
-propaganda is they call sharing <q>counterfeiting</q>. But the point
-is that this treaty will have provisions to restrict the public, we
-think, but they won't tell us. This is called Policy Laundering, this
-general practice; instead of democratically considering a law, which
-means the public gets to know what's being considered, gets to talk to
-the legislators, sees how they voted and so on, in secret they
-negotiate a treaty and then they come back and they say <q>we can't
-change the treaty and we obviously can't refuse it, so we're all now,
-we've just arranged for our country to be stuck with this
-law.</q></dd>
+propaganda is they call sharing “counterfeiting”. But the
+point is that this treaty will have provisions to restrict the public,
+we think, but they won't tell us. This is called Policy Laundering,
+this general practice; instead of democratically considering a law,
+which means the public gets to know what's being considered, gets to
+talk to the legislators, sees how they voted and so on, in secret they
+negotiate a treaty and then they come back and they say “we
+can't change the treaty and we obviously can't refuse it, so we're all
+now, we've just arranged for our country to be stuck with this
+law.”</dd>
<dt>KH</dt>
<dd>And we may well look at that law in a couple or three weeks
@@ -985,7 +986,7 @@
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