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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by KirinDave on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @10:49AM (#20995778)
Are we talking about RMS? If so, RMS wasn't "punished." Folks were tired of his bad leadership and demanded he leave, because he was consistently bad at his leadership job.

You can decide this is punishment and it might feel that way to RMS, but I think we can all agree sexism is a bad trait to have in the most senior leadership position of an organization founded around principles of liberty in expression and action. RMS was bad for that cause, and he couldn't keep his position on pure tenure and prestige anymore.

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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by atypicaluser on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @11:10AM (#20996065)
"...principles of liberty in expression and action." It amuses me that you fail to see the irony in your use of that phrase when it comes to RMS being forced to resign for what he said.
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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by KirinDave on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @11:13AM (#20996115)
Oh yes, in this case liberty would be allowing a man to stay in a leadership position with power over others despite their defiance of his legitimacy.

As we all know, real liberty is when one person has power over others who object to it.

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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by kentm on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @01:45PM (#20997999)
Other people exercising their rights to speech and freedom of association in response to someone's speech is not an attack on freedom of expression.
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