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posted by martyb on Tuesday September 17 2019, @05:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the resign:-to-sign-and-sign-again? dept.

Richard M. Stallman Resigns as FSF President and from its Board of Directors

https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns (emphasis from original retained):

On September 16, 2019, Richard M. Stallman, founder and president of
the Free Software Foundation, resigned as president and from its board
of directors.

The board will be conducting a search for a new president, beginning
immediately. Further details of the search will be published on
fsf.org.

For questions, contact FSF executive director John Sullivan at
johns@fsf.org.

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Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Resigns from MIT Over Epstein Comments

Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT Over Epstein Comments

Famed free software advocate and computer scientist Richard Stallman has resigned from MIT, according to an email he published online. The resignation comes after Stallman made comments about victims of child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, including that the victims went along with the abuse willingly.

"I am resigning effective immediately from my position in CSAIL at MIT," Stallman wrote in the email, referring to MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. "I am doing this due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations."

[...] Last week, Motherboard published the full email thread in which Stallman wrote that the "most plausible scenario" is that Epstein's underage victims in his campaign of trafficking were "entirely willing." Stallman also argued about the definition of "rape" and whether the term applies to the victims.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Tuesday September 17 2019, @07:57AM

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Tuesday September 17 2019, @07:57AM (#895063) Journal

    This.

    Check out my other comments in thread.

    I write about this on my site, and I have experienced this personally. I don't believe it has to do entirely with FOSS, it's one of a handful of issues thought that puts you on the front lines where the other side secretly attacks you and no one on your side realizes it, so you're isolated.

    https://jmichaelhudson.net/4-important-drawings/ [jmichaelhudson.net]

    anti-zionism
    anti-capitalism
    FOSS
    investigative journalism
    anti-fascism
    AI
    crypto
    darknet
    standup comedy
    anti-war
    anti-racism
    child protection

    This is a short working list that inductively demonstrates the nature of the cultural hegemony we are facing and I am writing because we rapidly need to spread the word that a bunch of us who think we are isolated are all on the same side. The sysem that is rising right now is one in which there are no rights and all technology is a state-integrated un-auditable cloud.

    Getting someone like stallman out of the way is a huge win for them, because they can't impersonate him, they can't argue with him, and he inspires other people, so they are and were looking for any possible way to discredit him, and they found it.

    They are infiltrating all groupings of people more than 5, you need to spread that warning. It is not specically what you are doing, it is that they want their finger on anything that might be starting. Their motto is probably something like 'no more civilian movements' or 'no more 1960s'.

    Beware and help spread the word, I could also use a hand just with some attention because I am for whatever reason very close to the front lines on this, having people actually following me.

    But like Ali G says, if video games have taught us anything if you encounter the bad guys that means you're going in the right direction.

    :)

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