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Thank you. Sometimes I find myself in awe of the ability of random internet threads to dig out the background material needed to make sense of a a flame war.

Thank you. Sometimes I find myself in awe of the ability of random internet threads to dig out the background material needed to make sense of a a flame war. This connection to Drew, combined with this comment from him here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41838124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41838124 and this link also posted here (the commented is downvoted to [dead]): https://kiwifarms.net/threads/drew-chadwick-devault-ddevault-sircmpwn.175606/ https://kiwifarms.net/threads/drew-chadwick-devault-ddevault... puts some much needed light on the source of all this heat.

bringen 2y ago
Your second link is worth reading again, seems it has had some rather concerning updates in the past day or two. A post from that thread, linked below, is currently highlighted on that site's front page with the title "An open letter libeling Richard Stallman as a pedophile was probably written by Drew DeVault, a progressive open-source developer who has 10 years of history posting lolicon on reddit": https://kiwifarms.net/threads/drew-chadwick-devault-ddevault-sircmpwn.175606/post-19604441 https://kiwifarms.net/threads/drew-chadwick-devault-ddevault... It describes various of Drew's online habits over the years, including sharing artwork of prepubescent children in swimsuits. Perhaps there is a perfectly reasonable non-pedophilic reason for this, and I do hope Drew will return to the comments here once more to explain. Either way, with this in mind, it places this section of Drew's report in a rather different context: https://stallman-report.org/#support-for-the-possession-of-child-sexual-abuse-material https://stallman-report.org/#support-for-the-possession-of-c...