Concur. The rms connection was certainly enough of a hook to justify posting this to LWN
(says I, a paying subscriber); I see less pertinent crap posted to Slashdot hourly.
And it's worth noting that USAdian toll-pass systems have the same problem; it's generically
referred to as Mission Creep, and being on the lookout for it is a generally useful thing to
do.
"First they came for the Jews, but I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew..."