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-th...