Hm good point, and the techbro loligarchs will be gunning for control over areas like that, so it will be under pressure.
Kinda like the character assassination misinformation campaign that temporarily sidelined RMS from the FSF. My pet conspiracy theory is that that was motivated by people who wanted the FSF to move away from its hard-line “copyleft for the benefit of the end-users rights” stance and become more accepting of corporate exploitation of Free Software.
05 June 2006 (Dutch pedophiles form political party)
Dutch pedophiles have formed a political party to campaign for legalization.
[Reference updated on 2018-04-25 because the old link was broken.]
I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren’t voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.
[Many years after posting this note, I had conversations with people who had been sexually abused as children and had suffered harmful effects. These conversations eventually convinced me that the practice is harmful and adults should not do it.]
He wrote this, on his own volition, without anyone forcing his hand, at the age of fifty-three years old. Fifty-three. It took him until he was in his sixties to be talked out of this position. This was posted on his public facing website. He chose to write this and show the world.
I’m sorry, no matter how great his contributions were, this was and is beyond the pale for the face of a public organization. It shouldn’t take you until you’re nearly sixty to figure out how that’s deeply wrong.
Honestly, I actually lump Stallman in with figures like Musk because they’re always making dumbfuck off the cuff remarks like this because they think they’re far more clever than they actually are.
I personally think he is the kind of person who hurts the organization and makes it difficult for the organization to connect with regular people, which is what it has to do if it actually wants to make headway in the world instead of being some fucking sweaty nerd club.
How was this a character assassination and misinformation campaign again? This is what he chose to write, on his own website, in his own words, unforced. It was more gross that it took over a decade for it to matter to anyone.
EDIT: I’m gonna quote myself with something I just wrote elsewhere, in response to https://www.opm.gov/fork
God damn it these fucking techbro loligarchs and their dipshit nerd humor.
Hurr hurr we’re making a fork of the US government code hurr durr.
What a bunch of juvenile fucking delinquents.
And that’s exactly how I feel about all these recursive name joke bullshit that RMS always did. “Gnu’s Not Unix” hurr hurr hurr get fucked, that stupid nerd shit humor is literally fucking up our government right now. I never cared for it, it’s dumb elitist bullshit that a lot of people who aren’t mathy just don’t get. That alienates people, it doesn’t bring them in.
The point is, the guy is egalitarian to a fault: he wrote the stuff you quoted not because he was trying to defend predatory adults, but because he was skeptical about disregarding the decision-making agency of children.
If there’s a problem with RMS, it’s that he’s too autistic to understand that some topics are too radioactive to write about, and that he makes very nuanced arguments that are vulnerable to misrepresentation by people with agendas.
Hm good point, and the techbro loligarchs will be gunning for control over areas like that, so it will be under pressure.
Not a popcorn show though. More like fingernail lunch.
Kinda like the character assassination misinformation campaign that temporarily sidelined RMS from the FSF. My pet conspiracy theory is that that was motivated by people who wanted the FSF to move away from its hard-line “copyleft for the benefit of the end-users rights” stance and become more accepting of corporate exploitation of Free Software.
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05 June 2006 (Dutch paedophiles form political party)
He wrote this, on his own volition, without anyone forcing his hand, at the age of fifty-three years old. Fifty-three. It took him until he was in his sixties to be talked out of this position. This was posted on his public facing website. He chose to write this and show the world.
I’m sorry, no matter how great his contributions were, this was and is beyond the pale for the face of a public organization. It shouldn’t take you until you’re nearly sixty to figure out how that’s deeply wrong.
Honestly, I actually lump Stallman in with figures like Musk because they’re always making dumbfuck off the cuff remarks like this because they think they’re far more clever than they actually are.
I personally think he is the kind of person who hurts the organization and makes it difficult for the organization to connect with regular people, which is what it has to do if it actually wants to make headway in the world instead of being some fucking sweaty nerd club.
How was this a character assassination and misinformation campaign again? This is what he chose to write, on his own website, in his own words, unforced. It was more gross that it took over a decade for it to matter to anyone.
EDIT: I’m gonna quote myself with something I just wrote elsewhere, in response to https://www.opm.gov/fork
And that’s exactly how I feel about all these recursive name joke bullshit that RMS always did. “Gnu’s Not Unix” hurr hurr hurr get fucked, that stupid nerd shit humor is literally fucking up our government right now. I never cared for it, it’s dumb elitist bullshit that a lot of people who aren’t mathy just don’t get. That alienates people, it doesn’t bring them in.
RMS is also someone who, on his own volition, came up with his own set of gender-neutral pronouns over a decade ago, before it was cool.
The point is, the guy is egalitarian to a fault: he wrote the stuff you quoted not because he was trying to defend predatory adults, but because he was skeptical about disregarding the decision-making agency of children.
If there’s a problem with RMS, it’s that he’s too autistic to understand that some topics are too radioactive to write about, and that he makes very nuanced arguments that are vulnerable to misrepresentation by people with agendas.