We, the anonymous editors of the Stallman report, have published our investigation of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation today to a general audience:
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Drew DeVaultreplied to Drew DeVault on last edited by
@anthk @cygnathreadbare @report_press "some minors murder people so I should be allowed to fuck underage girls" is not as good of an argument as you seem to think it is
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@drewdevault @cygnathreadbare @report_press
In my country once you get legal consent (>= 16) it's over,
there's no discussion on age gaps.
The only similar case (not stated by law) would be a judge itself noticing
that a 15-19 yo relationship is not that far-fetched and thus the 19yo it's
cleared of all charges in a potential case, as it happened in Spain where
a 19yo close to maturity to 15yo girl got all charges dropped;
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Drew DeVaultreplied to Anthk on last edited by [email protected]
@anthk @cygnathreadbare @report_press read this carefully.
Stallman does not defend relationships with small age gaps.
Stallman defends *all* sexual relationships between minors over the age of 12 or 13 and adults of any age.
Stallman frequently illustrates this with age gaps of 20, 30, even 50 years when making his points.
Read the appendix, then step away from the microphone and sit your ass down.
Appendix: Stallman on sexual relations between adults and minors
Appendix: Stallman on sexual relations between adults and minors This is the complete list of published opinions Richard Stallman has expressed on the subject of adults having sexual relations with minors that were collected for this report. In 2019, Stallman narrowed his position on adults having sex with minors. In a separate appendix,1 we provide supporting evidence to justify that Stallman’s retraction only applies to children younger than 12 or 13 years old.
The Stallman report (stallman-report.org)
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katzenbergerreplied to The Stallman report on last edited by
Please note that the FSF Europe #FSFE @fsfe has taken a clear stand here, immediately after it had learned that #Stallman became part of the #FSF board of directors again:
»That is why, as a legally and financially independent organisation, in which Richard Stallman has not had any decision-making powers, we call for his resignation from all FSF bodies. The FSF needs to seriously reflect on this decision as well as their decision-making process to prevent similar issues from happening again.«
Statement on Richard Stallman rejoining the FSF board - FSFE
We learnt through a public announcement that Richard Stallman is again part of the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation, one of our independe...
FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe (fsfe.org)
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[email protected]replied to The Stallman report on last edited by
@[email protected] Thanks. I hadn't even heard of the GNU Kind thing.
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Anthony Soracereplied to Drew DeVault on last edited by
@drewdevault @anthk @cygnathreadbare @report_press The urge to come up with *some* version of what he *might* have said which *could* plausibly be *somewhat* defensible — as opposed to just reading what the jerk *actually* said — is real strong with some RMS fans.
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@183231bcb @report_press please excuse me, if someone would be willing to point out/share the transphobia of the Kind Communcations I would greatly appreciate it. I am not picking up on it myself ...
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Roz :verifiedtransfem:replied to Jess on last edited by
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[email protected]replied to Roz :verifiedtransfem: on last edited by
@[email protected] @[email protected] Thanks!
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@[email protected] thanks to all the editors, and everybody else who helped, for all your work on this report ... it's very well-documented, and makes it very clear just how little excuse there is for FSF and Stallman’s other defenders to continue to enable and support his behavior.
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Erik Uden 🥥🌴🍑replied to The Stallman report last edited by
Thank you @report_press for creating this extensive report — I remember reading first about Stallman's terrible behavior in a series of now deleted Medium articles by Selam G., which had many good citations. It was originally published in September 2019.
1 — Remove Richard Stallman
2 — Appendix A
3 — Vice Article She Leaked the E-Mails ToThe way women are pushed out of, and made invisible in, academia, specially in IT, is something us men need to focus a lot more on, as it is our fault and it can't just be their job to fix. We need to be attentive, we need to call out such behavior and reflect on our own actions too. When women, nonbinaries, and other marginalized groups say they didn't feel comfortable when something happened, our first reaction should be taking them seriously and believing them.
Stallman played a significant role in creating a hazardous environment for FLINTA* at MIT and wherever he worked. Who knows how many women were pushed away from working in Computer Science because of him directly and indirectly through the environment he upheld.
To believe software development is above politics means to ignore every social aspect and interaction working with humans has.
Your work represented in this long report is great progress and I hope it leads to some sort of reflection and change; maybe not within FSF America, maybe not within Richard Stallman personally, but long term with every person reading this.
