> Of course not, it's my position that there shouldn't be such serious consequences for having a dissenting opinion
Do you think an advocate for paedophilia and child pornography should be able to pick up a job in a childcare centre or primary school?
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Are you really saying Minsky is a paedophile? You are exaggerating the situation here unfairly.
Stallman used to argue that 'voluntarily paedophilia' should be decriminalized, cf quotes from 2003 and 2006[1].
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d59r46/richard...
Yes, I know. But that's not what we're talking about now. We're taking about the objectionable comments he made now, rather than his long history of objectionable opinions. It probably affected the decision to fire him though.
That really is what we're talking about now, try as people might to ignore it. This was the last of a long string of statements and actions that Stallman had been repeatedly warned about.
Well, at the very least the Software Freedom Conservancy was talking about past behaviour, as did various other commentators.
You might be right that widowlark's comment was in reference to the Minsky defense specifically - I didn't read the exchange that led up to the comment that closely, and took its opening line about minority opinions as a reference to pedophilia apologia in general.
There is a real conversion to be had about our statutory rape laws. They're absurd in some aspects. That's beside the point.