@fontana, #RMS told me once that he'd refused that gift of the TV the way "an addict seeking to improve his habits might refuse a drug".
AFAIK #RMS had stopped watching TV by the time he was in college. He once told he refused the gift of a TV from his dad for his college dorm
@fontana, this part I agree w/. If #RMS had a different approach to explaining history, there wouldn't be animosity about this.