"Then what will you do, if you don't want to tell Big Brother where you are going?"

RMS is right on again, as always. The problem is that the younger generation wants Big Brother to know everything, and that is sad and scary. One need look no further than the comments on this thread for proof.

We are not teaching our children the value of humanity, and the way that privacy creates a sense of self. "Self" is now what you make it on Twitter/Facebook/SocialNetDuJour. Sharing everything in a way that government/Facebook/Google can monitor ("Big Brother") is like breathing to the youth who've had iPhones since before puberty.

So many younger programmers think RMS is absurd. They don't even have context to understand where he comes from. RMS has been foretelling the future since the days of the GNU wars. He's an ideologue, yes, but one whose points have always been valid.

Even the term "Big Brother". It's from George Orwell's book "1984". I wonder how many younger programmers would know that.