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Dora Scilipoti |
Subject: |
www/server/staging edtech-against-software-free... |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Mar 2022 15:30:42 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Dora Scilipoti <dora> 22/03/13 15:30:42
Modified files:
server/staging : edtech-against-software-freedom.html
Log message:
Some additional text and some deleted text. Add link to malware.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/staging/edtech-against-software-freedom.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.1&r2=1.2
Patches:
Index: edtech-against-software-freedom.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/server/staging/edtech-against-software-freedom.html,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
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--- edtech-against-software-freedom.html 19 Nov 2021 22:42:26 -0000
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@@ -29,9 +29,18 @@
<div style="clear: both"></div>
<div id="last-div" class="article reduced-width">
+<div class="announcement comment" role="complementary">
+<p>
+See examples of
+<a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">malware in
+educational proprietary technology</a>.
+</p>
+</div>
+
<h2>Ed Tech Corporations Against Software Freedom</h2>
<div class="article">
+
<p>Tech corporations <a href="#note1" id="note1-rev">[1]</a> are taking
over the field of education by pushing their proprietary products into
educational institutions of all levels. Proprietary applications loaded with
@@ -68,25 +77,6 @@
<p><a href="/education/edu-team.html">Join us</a> in the fight against the
use of nonfree software in schools.</p>
-<h3>Other text (written by RMS) that can be useful to complement the above
-or for inspiration:</h3>
-
-<p>Edtech companies are already developing great power over the students
-in the schools where they operate, and it will get worse. They use
-their surveillance power to manipulate students, and to direct students
-into tracks towards various levels of knowledge, power and prestige.</p>
-
-<p>https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2021/10/25/algorithmic-injustice-in-education-why-tech-companies-should-require-a-license-to-operate-in-childrens-education/</p>
-
-<p>They also structure their relationships so that they are never held
responsible
-for the consequences.</p>
-
-<p>The article argues that these companies should need to have licenses
-to operate. I am not against that, but I would go further. I say
-that the data acquired in a school about any student must not leave
-the school's control: whatever computers it gets onto must belong to
-the school and run free software. That way the school district and/or
-parents can control what it does with those data.</p>
</div>
<h3 class="footnote">Eventual notes go here</h3>
@@ -154,7 +144,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/11/19 22:42:26 $
+$Date: 2022/03/13 19:30:41 $
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</p>
</div>
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