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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
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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17 2019, @02:40PM (1 child)
And they also provided a copy of Mr. Stallman's exact words, [vice.com] which was in fact a link in the story you cited. So no, not a witch hunt but rather he did suggest that the term "sexual assault" shouldn't be used in a story because it is "slippery" and might be an inflation of what an accusation is (despite sex between minors and adults generally being accepted as sexual assault whether consensual or not), and that the most plausible scenario is that the 17 year old had sex willingly, as well as whether rape applies to a 17 year old female.
You didn't go read Mr. Stallman's words for yourself?
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Tuesday September 17 2019, @03:26PM
My point was about taking snippets out of context to smear someone. Which is exactly what that story did. Only two of the Stallman quotes are even a full sentence and both of those relate to the resignation, not the contents of the emails.
Having the
fullcensored text available elsewhere on the site by following one of many links does not at all detract from my point that this is a witch-burning.If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.