It sounds as if he operates in batch mode with regard to communication.
For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I
also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I
send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me.
It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.
Even that's quirky, when you can hardly buy a phone without Internet capability these days. You have to be deliberately avoiding a connection.
Perhaps the averse reactions here have something to do with too many of us living in densely populated/over-populated or even over-stimulated environments; the short-attention-span generation?
Even when you are off the grid, you can still get 24/7 high-speed internet with bi-directional satellite!
RMS is just being ornery.