<p>Stallman wrote “the right to read” and then spent decades volunteering to build billions of dollars worth of infrastructure to make it possible for a company to do this — <a href="https://ncac.org/news/blog/high-school-student-sues-amazon-for-deleting-1984-from-kindle" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ncac.org/news/blog/high-school</span><span class="invisible">-student-sues-amazon-for-deleting-1984-from-kindle</span></a> — all the while screaming invective at anyone who dared to criticize his priorities or motives. I don’t think the community has really reckoned with that. I am still struggling to.</p>