What do you think of Richard Stallman? (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

As of 2016, there are reports of Stallman changing his views on the matter within the previous few years.[2] However, in 2018 he defended Cody Wilson, who later pled guilty to sex with an underage girl, with Stallman saying that the girl likely had "entirely willing sex with him." Stallman changed his original post but nevertheless still said it is "normal for adults to be physically attracted to adolescents" and that adults using trafficked children shouldn't be legally responsible. In 2019, Stallman posted an email to an MIT listserv about the allegation that MIT professor Marvin Minsky raped a 17-year-old girl, and due to public outcry he resigned from both MIT and the Free Software Foundation.

changed his view on that a decade ago

got quieter about his views

[-] mukt@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

At 17 years, it is a matter of technicality. Plenty of places draw line at 16 years, some even lower.

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

Y'all are grown folk arguing if it's ethical to fuck high school students.

I got nothing to say to that.

[-] mukt@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago

Would you prefer teens to discuss and decide that instead? Or preteens?

[-] stopit@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I don't know him personally, so if he got quieter or lied (he actually has a statement on his website that, according to you is a lie) about his views, I would not know. Look, I see more than plenty of reasons for one not to like him. I feel people run with media reports even when we have his email transcripts that can be read word for word.

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

My criticism lies only with people who staunchly defend him and/or consider him a good guy / hero.

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