On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 05:32:30AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/25-years-later-interview-linus-torvalds > > "Social Media... Add in anonymity, and it's just disgusting. When you > don't even put your real name on your garbage (or the garbage you > share or like), it really doesn't help. I'm actually one of those > people who thinks that anonymity is overrated. Some people confuse > privacy and anonymity and think they go hand in hand, and that > protecting privacy means that you need to protect anonymity. I think > that's wrong. Anonymity is important if you're a whistle-blower, but > if you cannot prove your identity, your crazy rant on some > social-media platform shouldn't be visible, and you shouldn't be able > to share it or like it."
"Linus" - the greatest possible sidetrack/slowdown of the GNU/FSF "make liberty great again" political agenda. Linus, insisting on 'utility' being the greatest principle. Linus, publicly denouncing freedom as a foundation for the things we do, like say I dunno, code operating systems? Now Linus publicly denouncing the freedom to communicate as one chooses. First they came... https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists