Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along

jrepin sends this excerpt from an opinion piece at OSNews: "Late last year, president Obama signed a law that makes it possible to indefinitely detain terrorist suspects without any form of trial or due process. Peaceful protesters in Occupy movements all over the world have been labelled as terrorists by the authorities. Initiatives like SOPA promote diligent monitoring of communication channels. Thirty years ago, when Richard Stallman launched the GNU project, and during the three decades that followed, his sometimes extreme views and peculiar antics were ridiculed and disregarded as paranoia — but here we are, 2012, and his once paranoid what-ifs have become reality."

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Re:Free software wouldn't have helped

[gmuslera]

That makes it worse, not better. Essentially it says that whoever is outside US, is a subhuman with no rights, that can be kidnapped, tortured, or killed without trial, just because did a not so funny joke in the web, or pirated a movie, or disclosed corruption in US government, or whatever they want to say. Already started to invade countries just because "there are terrorists there". We know since 1939 how that ends.