Programmers have some responsibility just not the main responsibility.

Yes, where is this huge discussion taking place?

Not sure it is meant to be taken that literally because there isn't a subject called computational thought you can study at the moment anyway. The point of the article is to reframe the purpose of teaching programming away from the specifics of any particular programming language towards the general skill of computational thinking that can be applied to a wide range of disciplines. I think this is a very good point.

That said I think it would be a step backwards if ever a discipline of computational thinking was created that didn't involve actually writing code. One of the best things about programming is that whatever you do actually has to be executable and work. We should never lose this. In fact I'd argue that over time more disciplines should be expected to produce functional programs to demonstrate their ideas if not actually produce useful programs.

Both of these points highlight the importance of increasing our understanding of the relationship between ideas and computation and programming languages and techniques used to express them.

I love Richard Stallman so much; tirelessly devoted to a great cause. He seems like a looney to some now but in the future, if things so well, we will look back at him as a prophet. I just hope that politics will improve significantly in the near future and then we might be able to implement more of his vision on a larger scale.