Teaching GAFAM in Schools is Like Teaching Children to Smoke Tobacco

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 21, 2025

So suggests an FSF presentation

About a decade ago in Switzerland Richard Stallman spoke about "Free Software and Your Freedom" (Zurich, 2016) and his deck of slides included the following:

"When I searched for the funny "teaching kids to smoke tobacco" meme I dug it from here," cblinux says in IRC. █

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