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can we please refrain from posting facebook links unless the circumstances dont allow any other blog host ? call me a privacy fetishist but it is in the best interest of everyone to avoid this site like the plague.

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You can see the domain name before clicking the link. Just don't click them. Leave it up to others to make that decision for themselves, as well.

Talking about Emacs on Facebook is awful. As if the thing was "only a text editor" and not a symbol of freedom...

Author also worked at Facebook. According to your logic it would be awful if North Korean journalists would talk about freedom of speech.

For a Facebook employee, there is many other ways to speak about Emacs than on a closed platform.

In North Korea, I am not sure they have many alternative if they want to chat about freedom of speech.

Though, I appreciate that you compare Facebook to North Korea.

Freedom also means using whatever method you choose to talk about what you choose.

Sure, but Emacs didn't became Emacs without it's specific freedom ideology. Sorry, but I find it weird to forget about it.

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