I follow ESR on G+, but a distressing number of his posts are of the paranoid conspiracy type. I loved the jargon file and his general championing of Open Source, but he seems to have gone off the deep end.
esr has been knocking at the door of the laughing academy for nearly twenty years now. He's always been firmly in the "use his code, do not read his blog" camp.
Just because he’s paranoid, it does not mean he never (even if accidentally) hits on the truth. This may be a case. It certainly feels like that, see donglegate and the last high-profile defection from the Linux (kernel) development.