What’s the context? All I have heard of RMS is people worshipping the ground he walks on. As far as I know, he craps gold and pisses rainbows.
He spends a lot of time discussing why pedophilia isn’t rape.
Of a woman having sex with a minor, he said “I wish an attractive woman had ‘abused’ me that way when I was 14.” He directly addressed child pornography by saying that “making such photos should be a crime, and is a crime, but that is no reason to prohibit possessing copies of the photos.” He defended pedophilia, in general, in saying that “there is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.”
Oh no. Oh no.
I’ve also seen this in comments:
Yeah his public comments are just the tip of the iceberg. He’s been a creep for decades at MIT and wherever he went.
He has a phobia of plants so women at MIT have been using plants defensively: decorating their offices with lots of foliage, wearing plants etc, to avoid getting propositioned or groped by him. Seriously, defensive plants, it’s that ridiculous.
After people told him that flat-out propositioning every women within earshot is not acceptable, he started handing out “pleasure cards” (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEWlJXRWsAASHJw?format=jpg&name=small). Ewww.
It’s a travesty that he remained at MIT/FSF this long given dozens of credible cases of abuse.
Edit: Replaced inaccessible X link with web.archive.org snapshot link.
The person who described Stallman as “the personification of the Free Software Movement” in reference to this bullshit made my blood boil
These cards have to be a joke right?!?!?
UH OH
Big uffff
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For those purposes there’s the term “Statutory rape”.
Oh, right, I forgot that.
He got some heat in 2019 after an untastful statement he made regarding the Epstein case. A massive backlash happend, followed by him leaving many of his positions, esp. at MIT and at the FSF. Eventually he made some public excuses and got re-integrated to the FSF board, to the displeasure of some.
Oh no
I’m not sure, but he has some very… bad views on pedophile.
Like… dude, why are you discussing this so much?
Holy shit why did this man spend so much time defending these despicable positions?
…together with the dishonest law that labels sex with adolescents as “rape” even if they are willing, we cannot tell from this article…
These are dangerous and disgusting views.
. . . Oh no.
I mean from my pov it’s just a bad take or a lot.of bad takes
At a certain point, once you consistently take something, you own that something.
Kinda suspect
