• xor@infosec.pub
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      11 months ago

      beat me to it… yeah, he said that weird shit about ‘consenting’ underage children not being traumatized or some shit… or there was no evidence they were…
      later apologized and said he was shown evidence but, nah… plus the whole Epstein friendship thing…(maybe he was just naively getting fsf donations? ) dude did some fantastic things for computers and humanity overall with gnu… but he’s definitely not cool

      • uis@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        He probably talked about age of consent in most of European countries. As mentioned by CrypticCoffee above even in UK it is 16.

            • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              11 months ago

              It’s not underage if it’s above the age of consent. Europe isn’t a country, it varies across Europe. And it’s also 16 in most of the US.

                • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world
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                  11 months ago

                  Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like it. Between 2003 and 2013 he really used to believe that pedophilia doesn’t harm children. But he really only mentioned it a few times and hadn’t talked about it again until 2019 when it was brought up again. He said then that he had changed his mind since and that he was wrong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Controversies).

                  I don’t think we should cancel people for believing something stupid 10 years ago, but his haters love to use this. Just like they like to misquote him or spread fake rumors about him (https://stallmansupport.org). They are probably too angry to think clearly or verify information, but sometimes I wonder if for some of them it’s really only about his position on proprietary software (he wants to destroy it) and that’s why they wanted him removed from the FSF.