It's important to emphasize that Stallman advocates and emphasizes _freedom_. "For privacy's sake, you must avoid nonfree software since, as a consequence of g

It's important to emphasize that Stallman advocates and emphasizes _freedom_. "For privacy's sake, you must avoid nonfree software since, as a consequence of giving others control of your computing, it is likely to spy on you. Avoid service as a software substitute; as well as giving others control of your computing, it requires you to hand over all the pertinent data to the server." https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.en.... But free software can still do bad things. RMS is currently discussing (within GNU) standard guidelines for privacy expectations for GNU projects, which I'm encouraged by; once those are released, it'd be a good thing for other non-GNU projects to follow as well.