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by lumberjack 4904 days ago
I have no qualms about deciding what gets downloaded and what runs on my machine because it's ultimately my machine. That's a pretty basic tenant of free software.

Of course the content curators can use the same argument. They have every right to restrict content access to whoever they want but ultimately that wouldn't be profitable so they have to very liberal with their access permissions and chalk it down as a cost of doing business.