asciiart is decades old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art

to be technically correct, they are not “distributing” it. They are doing the same thing shazam does for music.

I agree on the first part. However this is from 2012 and in the meantime Linus himself realized and admitted that he was not proud of behaving like that and took real measures and seeked help in order to improve himself.

what kind of crack are YOU smoking? So practically “banning” poor people for traveling anywhere further than 500km than their hometown is the solution? And allow rich people go on as usual?

The not-wealthy will be the only ones affected by this. Business people were traveling since the birth of the aviation and will continue travelling. This will be just an increased cost in their cost planning.

So if you’re rich you’re allowed to destroy the planet. If you’re poor stay at home, the planet is in danger.