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That's a good point, but it's also not the entirety of what happened. See this Vice article https://archive.is/RVpdd https://archive.is/RVpdd : Selam Jie Gano,
by deogeo 7y ago
That's a good point, but it's also not the entirety of what happened. See this Vice article https://archive.is/RVpdd https://archive.is/RVpdd :
Selam Jie Gano, an MIT alum, posted on Medium about an email thread in which Stallman argued that the late Marvin Minsky—an AI pioneer accused of assaulting one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Giuffre—had not actually assaulted anyone.
Early in the thread, Stallman insists that the “most plausible scenario” is that Epstein’s underage victims were “entirely willing” while being trafficked.
The second paragraph looks, to me, as if it's the author of the Vice article that's making the claim, not Selam Jie.
- jcranmer 7y agoNote that Stallman probably qualifies as a public figure for the purposes of defamation law. At that point, meeting the bar of defamation requires showing malicious intent or reckless disregard for the truth, which is quite a high bar to meet, and I don't believe it is met here.