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EDIT: I forgot to actually tell why I replied. Both of us are teenagers (if you consider a 20 years old a teenager) I went to a Stallman talk just few weeks ag

by Spittie 12y ago

EDIT: I forgot to actually tell why I replied. Both of us are teenagers (if you consider a 20 years old a teenager) I went to a Stallman talk just few weeks ago. Obviously a lot of it went into mass surveillance and privacy, since that's the hot topic of the moment. I was with a friend, at the end of the talk he described Stallman as "the biggest paranoid I've ever heard". And mind you, that's not after a two minute "Everyone is spying", that's after a 1 hour and an half talk with plenty of examples from everywhere in the world. I guess some people just don't care. P.s. I suggest to anyone to go to a Stallman talk, or to listen to a record. One might not agree with his view, but he's a great speaker and has a lot of good points to reflect on.

cheald 12y ago
As a guy in his thirties, I long held the opinion that Stallman was a lunatic fringe paranoid who was worried about things that would never be actual concerns. Since the first Snowden revelations dropped last May (wow, a year already!) I have had to eat a lot of personal crow. I don't think that it's unreasonable to listen to Stallman and say "wow, this guy is ridiculously paranoid", but I've had to come to the realization that that doesn't make him wrong. It's not a comfortable realization.