Urgent: Ban junk fees for rental housing
Richard Stallman's Personal Page [Unofficial]
April 15, 2026
US citizens: call on the Federal Trade Commission to ban junk fees for rental housing.
In my letter, I also said that would-be renters should not be required to use any web site in the process of seeking, accepting, occupying and paying for the rental. Those web sites are usually malicious, since they run nonfree software in the user's browser. And they do various sorts of snooping.
By raising this issue in your letter, you will support software freedom.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
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