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I respect Stallman for everything he's accomplished, but I don't understand how anyone saw him as an authority on modern Web issues given his public stance on u
by PhasmaFelis 7y ago
I respect Stallman for everything he's accomplished, but I don't understand how anyone saw him as an authority on modern Web issues given his public stance on using the internet. https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
He's never owned a cellphone--any cellphone, not just a smartphone. His preferred way to use the Web is to email the URL to a service which emails him the site, which he reads in Lynx. He'll use a GUI browser when he has to, but he never does a Google search, because Google asks him for a CAPTCHA (because he's connecting through Tor) and the CAPTCHA doesn't work (because he refuses to run JavaScript).
Those may be reasonable choices for an individual, but treating him like a Web authority is like hiring a traffic engineer who's never driven a car.