"I am proud to identify myself when stating my views; I can afford to do that because I am in a fairly safe position. There are people who rationally fear repri

"I am proud to identify myself when stating my views; I can afford to do that because I am in a fairly safe position. There are people who rationally fear reprisals (from employers, gangsters, bullies, or the state) if they sign their name to their views. For their sake, let's reject any social networking site which insists on connecting an account to a person's real identity." [1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html I guess Stallman considers the celebrities to be in a safe position also. Yet I find it rather incongruous that he is so strident on privacy and firm on the view that he should be able to have a private life (he goes to great lengths to browse anonymously) yet he feels it's ok to allow publications to write about their private affairs (which may or may not have happened). I don't necessarily blame Stallman for this contradiction, frankly you can legitimately hold that censorship is wrong and privacy is important. Unfortunately there are occasions where they conflict badly. Stallman genuinely needs to address how DDG are meant to preserve privacy and counter censorship, because there is a genuine conflict and it's not necessarily an easy thing to address.