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Free software advocates seek removal of Richard Stallman and entire FSF board:
Richard Stallman's return to the Free Software Foundation's board of directors has drawn condemnation from many people in the free software community. An open letter signed by hundreds of people today called for Stallman to be removed again and for the FSF's entire board to resign.
The open letter said:
Richard M. Stallman, frequently known as RMS, has been a dangerous force in the free software community for a long time. He has shown himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety. These sorts of beliefs have no place in the free software, digital rights, and tech communities. With his recent reinstatement to the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation, we call for the entire Board of the FSF to step down and for RMS to be removed from all leadership positions.
Previously:
Richard Stallman Rejoins Free Software Foundation Board of Directors
Richard M. Stallman Resigns
Richard Stallman Deserved to be Fired, Says Fired GNU Hurd Maintainer
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 25 2021, @10:15PM (11 children)
> Let's show toxic people a dose of their own poison.
I totally agree. Toxic people were nice enough to provide a list of themselves by signing this petition. Let's try to remove them from positions of power.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 25 2021, @10:44PM (10 children)
per the usual the incels have no integrity, just reactionary bullshit with their faux victimhood
is muh cancel culture bad, or just when it is done to you?
is discrimination bad, or just when it happens to you?
saw a funny post about a libertarian who became a liberal after trying MDMA and finally comprehending that other people have feelings
so short an anecdote yet so poignant
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 26 2021, @12:06AM (9 children)
> waaaaah how dare you use our tactics against us
You fight violence with violence until potential opponents think twice before using it. Pacifist protests actually working are an exception in human history, not a rule.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 26 2021, @01:02AM (8 children)
Pacifistic resistance is highly effective if your opponent has a sense of ethics and/or honour because their own moral code will restrain them. It is not only completely ineffective but entirely self-destructive if your opponent has no morals because because their own code of conduct says to take full advantage of you.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 26 2021, @01:18AM (7 children)
This is a warmonger's myth. Non-violent resistance totally disables the evil opposition, because they actually depend on the kindness, and tacit compliance, of others. All power if based on the consent of the governed, and if the governed withhold consent, there is no power.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 26 2021, @02:37AM
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Arik on Friday March 26 2021, @03:05AM (3 children)
It would be a better world if that were true. But it's not.
Non-violent resistance is the best method when it can work, but it does require some humanity on the other side to work. Maybe not at the top - but among the rank and file. The enforcers on the street.
As long as they remain human, they can be reached, they can be shamed, they can resist orders to commit murder. Resisting them non-violently puts them in a psychological bind; torn between obeying their superiors and obeying their conscience. This is the point - to tear them free of the control of their superiors.
But once it gets to the point where the enforcers are no longer human, this does not work anymore. They have no human instincts to call out. They will exterminate or be exterminated.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anti-aristarchus on Friday March 26 2021, @06:28AM (2 children)
No, Arik, you are a coward, just like Runaway and khallow. You would collaborate rather than resist at the risk of your life.
If no one cooperates, the trains do not run on time, the busses go nowhere. the power to the death camps is shut off, and the Internet goes down. It's a goddammed general strike, Arik! And the "other side" can do nothing without the cooperation of a large proportion of the populace. This is why we kill collaborators in quite nasty ways, because they are cowards and traitors. There was a woman running for office in Lithuania, the granddaughter of Nazi collaborators, and the youngsters could not understand the reaction against her. We understand, don't we, Arik. The ones who turned in the Jews, the ones who tortured their fellow citizens, for a pittance and some food? Cowards, traitors. I really get the feeling that people have forgotten what fighting fascism is like. Prepare to die on your feet, or on your knees! And as Gandhi said, if you are not strong enough to be non-violent, being violent is better than being a coward. Suck it up, Arik!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Arik on Friday March 26 2021, @07:06AM (1 child)
Was the real-fake-ari-banned? I don't think so. Parsimony suggests you are the fake fake ari, and I probably shouldn't even reply to you.
Still;
"being violent is better than being a coward."
No. For anyone reading, no.
Being a coward is a personal failing you need to work on.
Being violent implicates everyone in the vicinity. And forces us to be violent in our responses, in some cases. You don't do that unless you're not only very certain you're right - but also that you can win and make things better instead of worse.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 26 2021, @05:35PM
Even when you can't win, sometimes especially then, when the only thing you can do is make oppression cost more, then fighting to the last is all you have left. "Give me freedom or give me death."
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 26 2021, @11:46PM (1 child)
Bullies have no care or use of governance, and being a pacifist just rewards and reinforces their behaviour. A good punch in the face works wonders to enlighten them of the errors of their ways.
Stallman has always been a bully, a misogynist, and a freeloading bum. And now he’s getting the metaphorical punch in the face, along with the useless leadership of the increasingly irrelevant FSF.
When iconic projects like RedHat and openSUse and Mozilla publicly denounce Stallman and the FSF board for reinstating him, and cut financial ties, you can scream cancel culture all you want, but the guy is toxic, and what goes around has finally come around. Karma is a bitch, ain’t it?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 27 2021, @03:35AM
> iconic
Fucking "iconic", fuck me, pin me in the ass and cuck me with my wife before I accept that. Greasy corporate whores, money grubbers, people I'd happily shit upon while shielding Stallman.
Why don't you, Mozilla, RedHat and Suse fuck off?