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> who turned out to be not such a cool guy

all I could find was allegations of sexual assault which could not be proven? Or was that comment about something else?

Without talking about this specific case (I've never heard of that guy) sexual assault is basically impossible to "prove" without clear video recordings. :/

So guilty until proven innocent?

It's better than "never guilty because proof is impossible".

I don't want to get involved in this, but none of his 'victims' have ever reported it to any authorities. It's basically a social media smear campaign. They even registered a website under his name with fanfic stories.

RMS should be the focus here. If the forward-writer is the focus, for whatever reason, it's not a good forward.

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