@udon @tirifto @digdeeper @gnusocialjp @ryo The four freedoms were a mistake in the first place, that's my take. To me they are invalid to begin with because the word free already has a meaning. There is no reason to redefine what is free. But also, if that had to be made at all, they should have predicted that stupid people would assume that it's a restrictive list that takes away all freedoms other than those four, and that there can be no other freedoms. Or at least they should have addressed that later. They should just add another one that says "and all the other freedoms not mentioned here".

Not that it should be necessary because again, Richard Stallman talks about privacy more than about anything else. Clearly it's a priority. Not that he has any right to choose what free means when it already has a meaning, that should definitely not be changed. Also, he's an idiot, so, if one person could decide that at all, it definitely shouldn't be him. To him freedom is the freedom to be enslaved by the government and take ze shot like you were told to. The only case in which he cares about actual freedom is in software.