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Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by acqq on Friday September 27, 2019 @03:43AM (#21089450)
As far as I know, he publicly renounced his decades old opinion even before the last witch hunt began. The witch hunt was based on false claim. He never supported Epstein.
Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by pseudalopex on Friday September 27, 2019 @05:34AM (#21090021)
Stallman defended adults having sex with children in 2013.[1] He didn't say anything else about it until now, as far as I know.

[1] https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#04_January_2...

Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by zajio1am on Friday September 27, 2019 @07:10AM (#21090581)
In this post he just linked The Guardian article that described lack of solid empirical evidence.

Also note that it is a difference between an empirical claim and a moral claim. While empirical claim that some action almost always leads to negative outcome to others could be used as an argument for that action being immoral, it is still perfectly valid to attack the supporting empirical claim, while not attacking the moral claim.

Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by pseudalopex on Friday September 27, 2019 @07:28AM (#21090682)
The point is that his opinion wasn't decades old.
Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by zajio1am on Friday September 27, 2019 @08:13AM (#21090988)
My point is that this Stallman's comment is not 'defending aduls havings sex with children', but statement about empirical facts.

There are Stallman's statements defending non-coercive sex with children, but they are older:

https://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html#28%20June%20...

Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by acqq on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:10PM (#21094610)
> He didn't say anything else about it until now, as far as I know.

At least there is this one from 14th September, also on his site:

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

" Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why."

Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by cygx on Friday September 27, 2019 @06:00AM (#21090147)
As far as I know, he publicly renounced his decades old opinion even before the last witch hunt began.

Citation needed. He expressed the same opinion in 2013 that he did in 2006 and 2003:

https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#04_January_2...

https://stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20June%20...

https://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html#28%20June%20...

Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by hdfbdtbcdg on Friday September 27, 2019 @06:54AM (#21090478)
And withdrew it in 2016...
Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by cygx on Friday September 27, 2019 @07:14AM (#21090606)
Good for him - where can I read up on that?
Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by dependenttypes on Friday September 27, 2019 @07:53AM (#21090842)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Biograp...

But even if he hadn't changed his opinion there would be nothing wrong with that imo.

Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by hdfbdtbcdg on Friday September 27, 2019 @07:19AM (#21090628)
The same place you linked to.
Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by cygx on Friday September 27, 2019 @08:26AM (#21091107)
Could you narrow that down? I tried, but there's a lot of material to go through.

The stuff I did find was only tangentially related and not indicative of any changes in position, eg

https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September...

https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September...

https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_July_2016...