I&#x27;m all in favor of credit where credit is due, but that&#x27;s like saying &quot;the Unabomber was right&quot; because examples exist of modern technology being misused in the past 20 years. If anything, his advocacy has damaged the credibility of legitimate privacy and civil rights advocates.<p>Surely, SURELY RMS is not one and only person you have ever heard in your entire life warn about the dangers of putting personal information online, or the dangers of government surveillance. That&#x27;s all just common sense and being relatively informed and skeptical about the world and the people around you.<p>RMS says a heck of a lot more than &quot;don&#x27;t post your pictures on Facebook&quot;, much like PETA says a lot more than just, &quot;treat animals ethically&quot;, or Earth First says a lot more than just, &quot;don&#x27;t destroy the environment&quot;. If sea levels rise much more in my lifetime, one lesson I will not draw from it is, &quot;Earth First was right!&quot;<p>If you care about this stuff, donate to the ACLU, not the FSF.