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Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by DanBC on Friday September 27, 2019 @10:36AM (#21092460)
> He is just accused of removing a condom

1) That's rape and 2) he's accused of more than that.

Here's the case: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2011/2849.html

This sounds pretty rapey to me.

> As regards offence 1, AA said in her statement that she had offered the use of her apartment to Mr Assange from 11-14 August 2010 when she was away. She had returned on 13 August 2010 earlier than planned and then met him for the first time. They went out to dinner and returned to her apartment. As they drank tea, he started to fondle her leg which she welcomed. Everything happened fast. Mr Assange ripped off her clothes and at the same time broke her necklace. She tried to put her clothes on again, but Mr Assange had immediately removed them again. She had thought that she did not really want to continue, but it was too late to tell Mr Assange to stop as she had consented so far. Accordingly she let Mr Assange take off all her clothes. Thereafter they laid down on the bed naked with AA on her back and Mr Assange on top. Mr Assange wanted to insert his penis into her vagina, but she did not want him to do that as he was not using a condom. She therefore squeezed her legs together in order to avoid him penetrating her. She tried to reach several times for a condom which Mr Assange had stopped her from doing by holding her arms and bending her legs open and trying to penetrate her with his penis without a condom. Mr Assange must have known it was a condom AA was reaching for and he had held her arms to stop her. After a while Mr Assange had asked AA what she was doing and why she was squeezing her legs together; AA told him she wanted him to put on a condom before he entered her. Mr Assange let go of AA's arms and put on a condom which AA found for him. AA felt a strong sense of unexpressed resistance on Mr Assange' s part against using a condom.

Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by dependenttypes on Friday September 27, 2019 @11:19AM (#21092922)
> That's rape

Legally in Sweden? Sure, but in everyday speech rape implies a lot of things which did not happen in the Assange case. I would say that Stallman's argument about sexual assault would apply perfectly here.

Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by DanBC on Saturday September 28, 2019 @02:53AM (#21098877)
Legally in the UK. If Assange wants to use the "it's not rape in Sweden" defence the place to do that is in the courts, which he has spent considerable effort avoiding for the past decade.