I always took "information wants to be free" as a "water flows downhill" kind of statement -- it describes the natural tendency and that you need to do a lot of work against it to contain it, and even then it's probably not going to be fully successful.
It's not about what "ought" or any sort of morality, more of a factual statement of how the world works.
It's not about what "ought" or any sort of morality, more of a factual statement of how the world works.