Richard Stallman's Personal Site

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This is the personal web site of Richard Stallman.

The views expressed here are my personal views, not those of the Free Software Foundation or the GNU Project.

For the sake of separation, this site has always been hosted elsewhere and managed separately.

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California voters: vote no on prop 22, the Uber exploitation exception.

If your state is a swing state, vote for Biden. Otherwise, vote Green — vote for Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker for president/VP. I delayed my decision hoping that Biden would support the progressive programs that the US and the world desperately need, but by choosing Harris he reaffirmed his rejection of them. If we keep voting for the plutocratist lesser evil, each time the plutocrats give us something worse than the previous lesser evil.

Massachusetts voters: vote yes on Question 2, to adopt ranked choice voting.

In San Francisco: Vote for progressive Shahid Buttar in the Democratic primary to replace Nancy Pelosi.

In part of Illinois, vote for Marie Newman for Congress over Dan Lipinski in the Democratic primary.

Support the US Green Party.

Support the Citizens' Climate Lobby.

US voters: refer to NORML's voting guide for candidates' stands on legalizing marijuana.

Vote for Sanders in your state's Democratic primary. It is important to win him more delegates even though he won't win the nomination that way. Besides, if Biden's various problems knock him out, Sanders might yet be nominated.

I am looking for a few more volunteers to help install new political notes on the site. If you'd like to help me in this way, please write to rms at gnu period org.

Is your bank pressuring you to use biometric ID? If so, please write to rms at gnu dot org. It could be useful if you document what is happening.

Please donate to the Free Software Foundation to support its work for your freedom.

"They" is plural — for singular antecedents, use singular gender-neutral pronouns.

Link Policy

The largest part of the site is the political notes, and they are typically updated every day.

browse various sites and show me items that I ought to see and link to. If you would like to help me in this way, please write to rms at gnu dot o r g.

find articles about games that lure and pressure users into spending a lot of money on competitive advantages, or letting their children do so. I've concluded this is a form of malicious functionality, and I want to make a list to add to https://gnu.org/malware/. If you know of an article, please email me the URL.

send me examples of how proprietary programs have been designed to be addictive.

If you know of a bank in the US that charges less than ten dollars for incoming wire transfers, please tell me about it. I csn't do online banking, since most US banks require customers to run nonfree apps or Javascript code for that, so I would need to open an account in some other way. Therefore, it would be best if the bank had an office in the Boston area. However, I'd be interested in whatever banks you can recommend even if they are not near me.

volunteer to post videos of my talks on audio-video.gnu.org.

send me examples of how proprietary programs have been designed to cause programmed obsolescence of products.

(in India) make and sell buttons that say, "DON'T BE TRACKED PAY CASH", in English and/or a local language, to resist the campaign against cash. Talk with a local company that makes buttons, buy a batch of 50 to 500 buttons for a quantity price, then sell them for 2 or 3 times that price.

get info about Delta face recognition. Delta Airlines' web site says clearly that using face recognition to for departures is optional. However, there are reports that in the airport they cover this up. Would someone flying on Delta out of Atlanta please record the announcements about face recognition for checkin and boarding? And what the checkin agent says to you about rejecting the face recognition. Also please take photos of any signs that talk about the matter. Then please send me email about what you saw/heard.

make a progressive candidate's web site usable in the Free World. A progressive candidate would like a volunteer to make per web site work fully in the Free World. If you are experienced in web development and want to help, please email rms.

develop a Firefox front end to search the Internet Archive with Javascript disabled (or LibreJS active).

write site-specific Firefox extensions or local scripts to operate specific web sites.

help maintain and operate savannah.gnu.org.

experiment to find good ways to attach fruits to a Grav-mass tree.

help web sites put free licenses on their Javascript code.

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