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In general, the idea of not expecting other people to act ethically, and doing nothing when others are acting unethically, seems morally suspect. We regularly decry Facebook and Google for practices that compromise privacy--is this wrong? Privacy is not some magic right which everybody acknowledges is important; in fact, Zuckerburg believes he is helping the world by limit it.

Stallman is just doing the same thing as the people commenting on Facebook's practices, just against proprietary software rather than privacy abuses. I think that not only should we not blame him, but we should also commend him for maintaining and arguing for his principles.



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