Benjamin Mako Hill: Access Without Empowerment
Channel: Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) e.V.
Date: 23/08/2015

https://media.ccc.de/browse/conferences/froscon/2015/froscon2015-1645-access_without_empowerment.html

The free software movement has twin goals: promoting access to software through users' freedom to share, and empowering users by giving them control over their technology. For all our movement's success, we have been much more successful at the former. I will use data from free software and from several related movements to explain why promoting empowerment is systematically more difficult than promoting access and I will explore how our movement might address the second challenge in the future.

Benjamin Mako Hill