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The Stallman report (stallman-report.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are a few things that Stallman really does not get.

Power over an individual reduces their ability to consent, and adults have considerable power over teens.
The discussion about having those teens accessing pornography should be handled separately. It's simply not the same matter.
Pornography and nudity are not the same thing.
No matter how bad witch hunters are, this should not be used as a defence for the alleged target of their witch hunts.
"Normal" or "natural" are not the same as "should be taken as morally, ethically, or legally acceptable".

Once you take those things into account, you notice that most of the things that Stallman talks about the topic aren't just immoral, they're outright idiotic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And at this point doubt he will.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Agreed.

And that's extremely shitty because it stains all his views over freedom of speech and libre software, even the sensible ones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

exactly, its just very disappointing! oh well! what can we do?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

what can we do?

The link itself offers a good first step: Stallman himself should be encouraged to step down, and if he doesn't the FSF should remove him from its board.

Furthermore we should be backing up both things and, in their failure, backing up a competing entity.

This should be done in a subtle way, though - without causing unnecessary drama. I know, easier said than done.

A silver lining on everything here is that his saner views are likely to be backed up by other people in the libre software movement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

This is more actionable than pretending he died in 2006.