No Company Is So Important Its Existence Justifies Setting Up a Police State

[jrepinc]

http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/richard-stallman-rms-on-privacy-data-and-free-software.html

[eveningcoffee]

>What is data privacy? The term implies that if a company collects data about you, it should somehow protect that data. But I don’t think that’s the issue. I think the problem is that it collects data about you period. We shouldn’t let them do that.

I really hope that there comes a day when he is not considered as complete lunatic by general populace.

[quadrangle → eveningcoffee]

We're already there. The general public today has no opinion of or knowledge of RMS.

But maybe you mean you hope we have a day when these valid arguments he makes here aren't so far out of mainstream that people find them impossible to deal with?

[arca_vorago → quadrangle]

Very much this. The real problem is getting the message to the masses when the message platforms that they use are controlled and censored.

[quadrangle]

Aside from the tiny side issue of my disagreement with RMS's make-work advocacy in railing against self-checkout at stores, this interview is remarkably well-put, concise, clear, and exceptionally important. I hope it gets widely read.