It's an interesting dynamic. I would agree that on the whole, you're probably correct that there is less censorship in the society. However, it seems that the

It's an interesting dynamic. I would agree that on the whole, you're probably correct that there is less censorship in the society. However, it seems that the political division is greater than ever. It is almost as if there are two Overton windows now, one for liberals and one for republicans (roughly). The republican one shifted to much less self-censorship, while the liberal one shifted very slightly to more self-censorship. And RMS seems to be caught in the liberal one. He has held his opinions for a long time, and nobody really cared that much. He is also not a particularly powerful figure. If anything, FSF is weaker than it has been in the 90s. That's also an interesting change in dynamics, the shifting of both windows now affects powerful and powerless alike, where in the past, it was I believe considered less decent to have "wrong opinions" if you were powerful, and the wrong opinions of the powerless were tolerated much more. (Basically, the difference between elites and proletes, and agreement who is what, is now morphing into a difference between liberals and republicans.)