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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: 2, Disagree) by snmygos on Tuesday September 17 2019, @08:18AM (2 children)
Stallman was defending Minsky.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17 2019, @12:10PM (1 child)
Add that Minsky couldn't refute any of those accusations himself because was long dead.
(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday September 17 2019, @01:28PM
Consider that RMS wasn't in the best position to refute, but others were [pjmedia.com].
This is how the hell gets paved with good intentions; in this case, not only RMS was pushed onto his own sword, but also the cacophony created by his attempt took over the message of someone in a better position to provide a refutation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford