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0 pointsnebula88043y ago0 comments

Stallman shot himself in the foot by having a text only blog that was easily searchable when it came time for the wolves to cancel him. A crappy proprietary blog or thousands of hours of ranting via Youtube videos ironically would have slowed down the haters and maybe even cause them to miss things with which to cancel him with. Its hilarious in an ironic way. Bonus points if the cancelers were running GNU software. :D

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user-3y ago

You make it sound like he said something mildly insensentive. He was "cancelled" for making pro-cp comments, and for literal decades of being a creep. https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1173637138413318144

A4ET8a8uTh03y ago

And how does that invalidate his technical expertise?

More importantly, was he charged and convicted with anything?

I am getting really tired of this public opinion tribunal, where mere accusation is enough to get a person out of their position. This is not how this is supposed to work at all.

someotherperson3y ago

No you don't get it. He was a "creep" aka should be cancelled wholesale on everything /s

The only questionable thing he did was try to rationalise pedophilia, which he has since changed his mind about. Given that he's clearly _not all there in the head_ (i.e neurodiverse) and assuming he hasn't tried to access child pornography or similar I couldn't care less. All of the other accusations against him are nonsense[0] and all center around unsubstantiated rumors of him being a "creep." People being anti-Stallman is insane to me considering how much he has contributed and advocates for not only free software but also gender equality.

[0] https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-agai...

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DoItToMe813y ago

Actually, he was "cancelled" by people lying about him supporting Epstein and saying child rape is good, neither of which were even close to being uttered.

The disingenuous nature of this all is why he's back in his foundations again.

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