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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by michaelmrose on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:41AM (#20992981)
How many disagreeable opinions do you personally allow someone to have before you believe it correct for people to try to coerce other people to stop doing business with them so you can silence them exactly?
Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by kelnos on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @08:31AM (#20994160)
That question of your is kinda in bad faith, though isn't it? There's no reasonable answer to that question. The answer is, of course, "it depends".

I would not want to work for a CEO who believed for years that "voluntary pedophilia" doesn't harm children. If I were someone at the FSF with any amount of power, and I found out about that, I would immediately work to get him ousted, or, failing that, I'd quit.

And it's not like this is the only thing he's done; he's been creating a hostile environment for women at MIT for decades. It's about time he was held to account for that, too.

Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by michaelmrose on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @08:58AM (#21004879)
You should care about what people do not what they think.
Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by mlyle on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @11:56AM (#20996721)
So, do you think, for instance, FSF donors and contributors should be compelled to keep working with the FSF even if they find the statements of the president of the FSF to be repugnant?

A key reason behind him stepping down is because the GNOME folks wanted to part ways with the FSF over these issues.

Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by CathedralBorrow on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @09:37AM (#20994888)
I'm curious about this point. If I don't do business with some company, am I silencing someone? Or only when I don't do business with a company for some specific reason?

Now, say I tweet about my boycott of this company. Am I now silencing someone?

Since we're discussing the fine details here, can you tell me exactly when my freedom of speech becomes a tool to coerce and silence others in this scenario?

Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by empath75 on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @07:05PM (#21000973)
How many people do you want to force into doing business with someone they find repugnant?