what really happened was that he went from holding leadership positions in three prominent institutions to just one. it's easy to have strong feelings about these issues, but let's try to keep things in perspective.
He’s had to move, he’s lost all his potions, etc.
There was very little discourse and punishment was swift. That’s not really the way justice should be served. This man (RMS), essentially spent his life fighting for others. He was thrown to the wolves without discussion.
We don’t know if it’s true but:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21103133
In either case, to your comment, he was stripped of his life. To say otherwise is disingenuous.
It’d be like saying: I took your house and job, but left you the car.
That’d still be striping you of land and title (to your comment)
> I continue to be the Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project. I do not intend to stop any time soon.
apparently the site was previously defaced by an FSF employee.
and according to stallman's personal site, he's found interim housing (https://stallman.org/).
Accommodations underneath bridges and even worse places for our homeless are unfortunately a widespread issue in the US.
You are right. Let's try to keep things in perspective.
You have just outlined the double-speak of the SV technocracy, which have imposed these hidden codes on those that they disagree with. Mind you that the media has now amplified this and have used all of this to create a new enemy called Richard Stallman. As long as this appalling cancel-culture behaviour stops, he certainly won't be the last one to fall victim to these purity tests.
Absolutely hypocritical indeed.