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by chickenfries 2641 days ago
Free software is a political movement. Calling it “free” was a political choice to convince people that proprietary software is “unfree”. I really don’t know where to begin explaining this...
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Well yes, but they are not policing speech as far as I know. I have nothing against people/projects being political, it's when a specific political view that I do not agree with gets enforced upon me that the issue arises.
Companies and institutions have every right to define what is acceptable speech in their own universes

And freedom of speech isn't an absolute right – not even in the U.S., but even less so in pretty much any other advanced Western democracy.