[ItNews] Stallman calls for end to ‘war on sharing’

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Surveillance, censorship, restrictive data formats and software-as-a-service threatened the freedom of IT users, GNU founder and free software activist Richard Stallman claimed.

He criticised Australian plans to force telcos and ISPs to store browsing and call logs in a similar fashion to the European Directive on Data Retention.

Stallman argued that it was never « too early to debate the question of whether the government should watch all of us« .

« To end the war on sharing is an imperative, » he said. « Its goal is bad because sharing is good; sharing is the way we build a society. »

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