This is not censorship. I choose not to tell everyone I meet about Microsoft Windows, but this doesn't mean I'm censoring Microsoft. It just means that I'm not gonig to advertise something I don't agree with.

Similarly, I don't approve of distros that include non-free software, so I don't recommend them to people. I'm not censoring Ubuntu, I'm just not advertising them. The FSF does the same thing, and IMO it's perfectly acceptable to do so.

Trisquel takes the position that it is wrong to recommend non-free software to its users, so it doesn't include them in its repositories. Yes, a mostly-free system is better than an entirely proprietary one, but it shouldn't be the goal that we in the free software community advocate. Debian takes the position that it's ok to help people install non-free software by giving them advice via their website and forums, and providing a non-free repository that is available to anyone who wants it. This is why they're not considered a fully free distro by the FSF.

I believe OP might have already known this, though, and that the question was more along the lines of whether Debian GNU/Hurd is completely free, or whether it is affected by the same issues that affect Debian GNU/Linux. I'd also like to know this.

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