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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
fsf.org.For questions, contact FSF executive director John Sullivan at
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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 Wednesday September 18 2019, @09:36AM
As you can see this was not a public mail thread, what you can find our screen grabs from someone making a private communication public. (Which, to me, is the vilest thing that happened to/in that mail thread)
I don't know how large the audience of this mailing was, but it was not public.
Furthermore, public figures are allowed to express their opinion on anything. What's wrong and why you advice not to do it, has nothing to do with the public figure but with the inability from today's internet society to be something else than a mob.
What all these internet platforms fail at, and even the media are bad at, is presenting those opinions as "informed / completely void of any knowledge on the subject / expert on subject matter / direct witness / ..."