Freedom in the Cloud (lecture)
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Freedom in the Cloud (lecture) is a widely discussed talk by legal scholar and free software advocate Eben Moglen that critiques centralized online services and warns about their implications for privacy and digital freedom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Freedom in the Cloud (lecture) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12898996 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Freedom in the Cloud (lecture) Context triple: [Eben Moglen, notableWork, Freedom in the Cloud (lecture)]
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A.
Get Off of My Cloud
"Get Off of My Cloud" is a 1965 rock song by the Rolling Stones that became a major international hit and a defining early example of their rebellious sound.
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B.
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
"Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow that critiques modern copyright and digital rights regimes while advocating for open culture and user freedoms in the digital age.
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C.
Build a School in the Cloud
"Build a School in the Cloud" is a TED Talk by educational researcher Sugata Mitra in which he proposes self-organized learning environments and internet-based exploration as a radical rethinking of traditional schooling.
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D.
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing
The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing is a leading annual research conference that brings together academics, industry experts, and practitioners to present and discuss advances in cloud computing technologies, architectures, and applications.
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E.
The Host and the Cloud
The Host and the Cloud is a 2010 experimental film and performance project by French artist Pierre Huyghe that stages unscripted actions inside an abandoned ethnographic museum to explore memory, ritual, and institutional power.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Freedom in the Cloud (lecture) Target entity description: Freedom in the Cloud (lecture) is a widely discussed talk by legal scholar and free software advocate Eben Moglen that critiques centralized online services and warns about their implications for privacy and digital freedom.
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A.
Get Off of My Cloud
"Get Off of My Cloud" is a 1965 rock song by the Rolling Stones that became a major international hit and a defining early example of their rebellious sound.
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B.
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
"Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow that critiques modern copyright and digital rights regimes while advocating for open culture and user freedoms in the digital age.
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C.
Build a School in the Cloud
"Build a School in the Cloud" is a TED Talk by educational researcher Sugata Mitra in which he proposes self-organized learning environments and internet-based exploration as a radical rethinking of traditional schooling.
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D.
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing
The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing is a leading annual research conference that brings together academics, industry experts, and practitioners to present and discuss advances in cloud computing technologies, architectures, and applications.
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E.
The Host and the Cloud
The Host and the Cloud is a 2010 experimental film and performance project by French artist Pierre Huyghe that stages unscripted actions inside an abandoned ethnographic museum to explore memory, ritual, and institutional power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
public lecture
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speech ⓘ talk ⓘ |
| about |
Facebook
NERFINISHED
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Google NERFINISHED ⓘ architecture of the internet ⓘ autonomous infrastructure ⓘ civil liberties online ⓘ corporate control of user data ⓘ data mining ⓘ decentralized communication systems ⓘ democracy and the internet ⓘ distributed social networks ⓘ encryption ⓘ free and open-source software ⓘ legal aspects of software freedom ⓘ political organizing and technology ⓘ privacy threats from cloud services ⓘ profiling of users ⓘ risks of centralized social networks ⓘ state surveillance ⓘ |
| author | Eben Moglen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Eben Moglen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
free software advocacy talk
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legal and policy talk ⓘ technology lecture ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
debates on privacy and social networks
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digital rights activism ⓘ free software movement discourse ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
centralized online services
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cloud computing ⓘ data ownership ⓘ digital freedom ⓘ digital privacy ⓘ free software ⓘ networked surveillance ⓘ political implications of technology ⓘ software freedom ⓘ surveillance ⓘ user autonomy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
articulating legal and ethical concerns about cloud services
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influencing debates on cloud computing and freedom ⓘ popularizing critiques of Facebook as a surveillance platform ⓘ |
| positionOn |
critical of centralized cloud platforms
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supports decentralized architectures ⓘ supports free software principles ⓘ supports user control over data ⓘ |
| speaker | Eben Moglen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Freedom in the Cloud (lecture) Description of subject: Freedom in the Cloud (lecture) is a widely discussed talk by legal scholar and free software advocate Eben Moglen that critiques centralized online services and warns about their implications for privacy and digital freedom.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.