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Taking Action For Free JavaScript

Posted by samzenpus on from the power-to-the-people dept.

Atticus Rex writes "Today the FSF kicked off a campaign to put pressure on webmasters to make their sites work without requiring nonfree JavaScript. The first target is Regulations.gov, a site the US government uses to take public comments on proposed regulations. Right now, the site requires nonfree JavaScript, requiring citizens to sacrifice their freedom as users to take part in their democracy."

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  1. The free software foundation by OhANameWhatName · · Score: 0, Troll

    As relevant as ever.

  2. Re:Loons running the asylum by dirtyhippie · · Score: 0, Troll

    If we're promoting freedom everywhere, maybe we should start with people being raped, bombed, murdered, etc. against their will instead of some computer code that some relatively rich people "have" to run in their web browser. It's a classic first world problem, and the amount of hyperbole involved just makes it that much clearer that Stallman and other FSF folks have a totally skewed frame of reference.