I mean, that's just patently false, but the most prominent way in which that statement falls apart is that DRM is designed to restrict
users and the GPL has
no restrictions on users.
The GPL does place nontechnical restrictions on developers, but those restrictions exist to ensure that bad actors can't add new restrictions to users.
But seriously, "GPL is DRM" makes no sense. Aside from the fact that DRM and the GPL are completely different classes of things, they also have completely contradictory philosophies and are applied and act in completely contradictory ways. That's just FUD.