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when people say free software, they usually mean free as in free speech, rather than free as in free beer, as the saying goes. it's not about money, it's about if you have a piece of software, having the freedom to use, modify and share it how you'd like.
“Free Speech” as to what racist say they are using when people call them out for being racist?
You are talking about Freeze Peach. Free Speech is about having not getting persecuted from denouncing entities (companies, governments, religious gatherings, etc.) or public personae (King, Prime Minister, company owner, influencer, demagogue) when they are supposedly doing something bad, not because they have different appearance or different biological traits.
You should be careful when offending kings, though.
EDIT: English language sucks because it has the same word for freedom-like-free and price-free. Many other languages have such words (like Lithuanian laisva vs nemokama or Russian свободное vs бесплатное). Stallman is a native Spanish speaker, so he's using the wording libre software to denote Free Software, which can have some price. Free Software should be held as software without any vendor-lock-in, and with an ability to modify and share it.