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Debian uses its own version of the Linux kernel with proprietary parts removed; however, if you want to install it on a machine that does have hardware for which there are no free drivers (which is to say almost any machine out there in the market), you'll have to install proprietary parts; in the last version, Debian 12, system does that by default.
Intel Management Engine is a CPU-level microprogram that runs with highest priority and does not have open code, so essentially every PC with Intel CPU runs some arbitrary code we cannot verify. Same for AMD Platform Security Processor by the way, so there is no simple escape.
Oh and BIOS is proprietary too, and only a few select machines can have a fully libre BIOS successfully installed on them.
Thereby even if you go to essentially libre version of Linux, there will, almost universally, be pieces of obfuscated code with no disclosure on what they're doing there.
Is there a completely libre platform out there. I don't have any problem with running a risv-v CPU or anything similar
RISC-V should be fine, if price, performance, software support, and form-factors are all okay for you.
For most, it isn't, but if you wanna go such great lenghts, I'd say you have a chance.
Can you recommended any board?
Sadly, not really - didn't go deep into various options.
But maybe someone else can help?