Richard Stallman's Next Public Talk is in Milan, Italy Next Week
Dr. Stallman returns to Italy (he's in Europe) and will be giving a talk, which his site describes or outlines as follows:
Talk in Milan, Italy, on May 26, 2025
Talk in Milan, Italy
I will speak at 17:15 on May 26 in the Politecnico di Milano, in
Milan, Italy at Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, Room 9.1.2.
Topic: Computing freedom, software, and services
We understand that the uses of computing can be unjust.
Most do not realize that the mechanisms of computing
can be unjust at their own level in their own ways.
A nonfree program is one that that the users do not control. If that
does your computing, its owners control your computing. This is the
basic idea of the free software movement — but what about using
services?
When you use a service to do your own computing, the service's owner
controls that computing. If that owner isn't you, this is unjust. BY
contrast, if your computer talks to a store's server on your behalf,
to arrange a deal between you and the store, your side of that
can be fully under your control.
Society and powerful institutions lure and pressure people into a
tangled web of online dis-services and nonfree software which may seem
impossible to escape. But you can start by rejecting a few of them.
Saying no even once is helping!
Address: Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32
Room 9.1.2
Milan, Italy
When: Monday, May 26, 17:15
Based on this public post in his political notes, he only announced this talk a few hours ago:
Happy hacking. Come join him, share the software. █
That was 4 days ago.
That was 3 days ago and it's why some companies incite people to prevent him from speaking.