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This is overkill. Stallman is not accused of doing anything illegal. He just expressed an unpopular opinion.

Get angry about something real, like Georgia voting to keep poor people from voting.

What was the opinion?

> In fact, RMS' views and statements posted on stallman.org about sexual morality escalated for the worse over the last few years.

-- Bradley Kuhn (at-the-time FSF board member), http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html

On the original blog, every word in that sentence is a link to a different post on stallman.org

He's said: I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children.

He regretted saying it later, because he misunderstood the concept of grooming.

Several. They are quoted in some detail in the open letter. Some are patently silly, such as disagreeing with the use of "they" as a gender-neutral pronoun, since he simply prefers other alternatives and has indeed been attentive to that problem since before it hit the mainstream in recent years.

I guess the most unpopular ones are his comments regarding relationships with minors... Regardless of strongly disagreeing with him, I lean towards freedom of speech on this one.

EDIT: I also must say I haven't read his comments in full, so it's possible he said things about this which I'm not aware of.

> I guess the most unpopular ones are his comments regarding relationships with minors...

To which he recently added that he changed his minds after discussing about it with unspecified people.

This is whataboutism. We're perfectly capable of being angry about more than one thing at a time.

I no longer see any occupy-wall-street anger. Quite convenient and safe for multi-nationals to feign Victorian moral outrage instead.

Black Lives Matter was diverted into irrelevance in the same way. Lots of noise about statutes and names, not so much about Federal prosecution of cops and stronger civilian review boards.

Some people will always lose interest after a while. It doesn't mean everyone did. https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja is still reporting every day for example. You can learn from them about some changes around qualified immunity that were implemented. If you don't want it to disappear, spread the word.

Stallman has also been accused of sexual harassment, unwanted physical contact and verbal harassment for years. But his supporters dismiss every such report as a lie made up by Marxist feminist agitators because that sort of thing is harder to defend than "unpopular opinions."

Red Hat isn't donating money to Georgia.

This isn't about a single event. RMS has been alienating even his strongest supporters for decades. The tone of his return to the FSF board made it clear that he still hasn't learned why and isn't interested in learning.

fake news, show us proof, don't just believe what you hear. it's still easier to vote in GA than TX, which doesn't allow no-excuse absentee ballots. is getting a free ID such a burden?

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