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This sucks. All over a few comments people didn't like (from a person who comments on the news publicly online every single day for the past 20+? years) about t

This sucks. All over a few comments people didn't like (from a person who comments on the news publicly online every single day for the past 20+? years) about the scandal regarding Epstein and Minsky. Stallman thinks both men are criminals and serial rapists, and yet, still the OSI thinks he's dangerous because he made an off-topic comment about what "assault" really means (off-topic because it does not lessen the illegality or the seriousness of the crimes).

wrycoder 6y ago
Yes, Stallman has said that Epstein was a serial rapist. But, where did you ever get the idea that he thought the same of Minsky? There is nothing like that in the CSAIL email chain. RMS was simply objecting to a protest announcement's use of the term "sexual assault" when the source the announcement's authors were using said "only that they had sex" (RMS' words). Actually, the source states, "Giuffre says she was directed to have sex with Minsky when he visited Epstein’s compound in the US Virgin Islands." RMS had no first hand knowledge of the event, and was naively engaging in his usual lawyerly precision. Here is the article RMS was discussing: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900 https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900 The evidence actually shows that Minsky rejected the woman's advances: Eyewitness claims Minsky "turned her down": https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/339725/ https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/339725/ Minsky's wife denies that any sex took place, as she was with her husband at Epstein's place: https://nypost.com/2019/08/09/jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-sex-slave-reveals-the-men-she-claims-she-was-forced-to-sleep-with/ https://nypost.com/2019/08/09/jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-sex-s...