These are all valid points, but Stallman never said anything to defend either Epstein or his associates. I’m not advocating for Stallman’s position either by qu

These are all valid points, but Stallman never said anything to defend either Epstein or his associates. I’m not advocating for Stallman’s position either by questioning if it was effective or by laying it out here, but this is the subject that got him in trouble Stallman basically believes in freedom, love, and the precise use of language. He doesn’t even like people using “they” pronouns, preferring other gender-neutral pronouns like “pers,” because it’s singular. That’s the kind of argument he usually gets into. Here, he was objecting to the use of the term “sexual assault” for people who had only been accused but not found guilty of anything because it carries so much force. He attempted to show that most plausible situations didn’t involve force or coercion on the part of the accused in this case. He doesn’t care about the consensus popular or legal definition of “sexual assault,” only the most precise one.