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Meanwhile, blue checks with substantial mob following on Twitter are calling him a "literal pedophile rapist".

knolax 7y ago
Just saw a tweet that claims he "LOVES RAPE".
craigsmansion 7y ago
Yes, the actually unpalatable elements of the FLOSS community are crawling out of the woodworks now. I would have never expected the Software Freedom Conservancy and the EFF to be amongst them though. Poor Richard, having his life's work usurped by the ankle biters and the self-aggrandising.
DanBC 7y ago
Most people don't need to be told that child abuse is bad. Stallman used to think child abuse wasn't harmful. He only changed his mind after survivors of abuse spoke to him. Some will claim this is evidence of his scepticism but really it's evidence of lazy thinking. He could have done a tiny bit of reading before saying that child abuse isn't harmful, but he chose not to do so.
- leereeves 7y ago
  Almost all societies used to believe (and some still do) that what we now call child abuse was ok. People who experienced it themselves would go on to do it to others. Getting past that was a thought evolution that took hundreds of years, not "a tiny bit of reading". Stallman dared to question the dominant belief in the US today, and needed more evidence before accepting that belief. With sufficient investigation (hardly "lazy thinking") he came to agree with it, but that's not enough for the social media mobs. His experience shows that one must not only accept the dominant belief, one must accept it immediately and without question, because a moment of heresy will never be forgiven or forgotten.
BlackRing 7y ago
The medium article that was parroted by other sites was a hit piece that lied. And of course the people reading it believed every word without a shred of doubt, and other outlets republishing it failed journalistic integrity spectacularly. Congratulations, to all those who fell for it. https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d5a4dz/_/f0l50w4/?context=2 https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d5a4dz/_/f0l50w4/?co...
- lliamander 7y ago
  Wait, so the only thing that happened with Minsky was that she was told to proposition him (by Epstein), and that he turned her down? I'd like to here confirmation of that from the victim, but if that's the case then this whole ordeal is just an epic disaster.

Just saw a tweet that claims he "LOVES RAPE".

Yes, the actually unpalatable elements of the FLOSS community are crawling out of the woodworks now. I would have never expected the Software Freedom Conservancy and the EFF to be amongst them though. Poor Richard, having his life's work usurped by the ankle biters and the self-aggrandising.

DanBC 7y ago

Most people don't need to be told that child abuse is bad. Stallman used to think child abuse wasn't harmful. He only changed his mind after survivors of abuse spoke to him. Some will claim this is evidence of his scepticism but really it's evidence of lazy thinking. He could have done a tiny bit of reading before saying that child abuse isn't harmful, but he chose not to do so.

leereeves 7y ago
Almost all societies used to believe (and some still do) that what we now call child abuse was ok. People who experienced it themselves would go on to do it to others. Getting past that was a thought evolution that took hundreds of years, not "a tiny bit of reading". Stallman dared to question the dominant belief in the US today, and needed more evidence before accepting that belief. With sufficient investigation (hardly "lazy thinking") he came to agree with it, but that's not enough for the social media mobs. His experience shows that one must not only accept the dominant belief, one must accept it immediately and without question, because a moment of heresy will never be forgiven or forgotten.

BlackRing 7y ago

The medium article that was parroted by other sites was a hit piece that lied. And of course the people reading it believed every word without a shred of doubt, and other outlets republishing it failed journalistic integrity spectacularly. Congratulations, to all those who fell for it. https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d5a4dz/_/f0l50w4/?context=2 https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d5a4dz/_/f0l50w4/?co...

lliamander 7y ago
Wait, so the only thing that happened with Minsky was that she was told to proposition him (by Epstein), and that he turned her down? I'd like to here confirmation of that from the victim, but if that's the case then this whole ordeal is just an epic disaster.