The EFF Hosts a 'John Perry Barlow Symposium' Next Saturday

An anonymous reader writes: The EFF is announcing "a celebration of the life and leadership of the recently departed founder of EFF, John Perry Barlow," to be held next Saturday at the Internet Archive in San Francisco from 2:00 to 6:00. The event will also be streamed live on the Internet Archive's YouTube channel.

Confirmed speakers include Edward Snowden, Cory Doctorow, EFF co-founders John Gilmore and Mitch Kapor, and Shari Steele, the executive director of the Tor Project (and a former EFF executive director).

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[Snotnose]

Don't really give a shit as long as he does a good job.

Old This American LIfe Segment

[Kunedog]

Here's an old TAL segment about him meeting the love of his life (at the time):
https://www.thisamericanlife.o... [thisamericanlife.org]

Aw shucks

[arth1]

Too bad he won't attend.

That aside, it's not strictly a symposium, if there's no discussions and just speeches. Purists might require that there be drinking too, but at least there should be discussions among everyone.

But I hope everyone who does speak have something useful to say. That would be honouring him more than platitudes will.

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[K. S. Kyosuke]

That's weird, because it seems to me that the EFF is *all* about social concerns (of modern electronics and computing, which is the "E" in its name, obviously).

What!

[Mister Liberty]

No McKinley "Mackey" Bear!?

Slashdot's worst April Fool's joke ever

[fishfrys]

Dyslexically read that John Perry Barlow was to host symposium and thought it Slashdot's worst April Fool's joke ever.