That's exactly what that article will be for. Long story short - we believe that strict monitoring of what modem does and raising user awareness that it's in fact a blackbox is the only sensible approach and blocking firmware upgrade is in fact violating user freedom without giving anything in return (FSF believes it's better for privacy, but we're not really convinced - it could be easily workarounded by modem manufacturer with malicious intents).

I hope that it will raise the discussion and awareness of the topic. We don't want to point out "haha FSF is wrong, don't listen to them", that would be pointless and mad. Instead we want to say "hey, FSF, we think some of your recommendations need some adjustments, and here's why". It's nothing new, we were saying that all the time in some IRC discussions etc. - so we felt like it should be written in some way, so it can reach more interested people and will enable us to stop repeating ourselves over and over again