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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF by armchairhacker on Sunday March 21, 2021 @09:20PM (#26535796)
Some context I got from https://www.wired.com/story/richard-stallman-and-the-fall-of...:

Stallman was pressured to resign from the board and MIT because of some of these controversies:

- Jeffrey Epstein coerced one of his victims to have sex with Marvin Minsky. In an online thread, Stallman argued that this might not be sexual assault if Minsky didn't realize she was coerced.

- 10 years ago, Stallman claimed that 14 year olds are old enough to consent to sex and it's not pedophilia. He since retracted this claim

- He is generally very weird and doesn't have etiquite. For example, he was invited to a fancy restaurant and then pranced around the tables because he wanted to dance

Overall, Stallman is very unaware of societal expectations, so sometimes he says things ranging from non-PC to outright sexist, albeit unintentionally.

EDIT: Fixed some inaccuracies

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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF by throwawaycdn12 on Sunday March 21, 2021 @09:43PM (#26535952)
Canada only raised their age of consent from 14 to 16 in 2008. I don't think Canada should be cancelled as a result of this.
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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF by Dma54rhs on Sunday March 21, 2021 @10:44PM (#26536316)
Many EU countries still at 14.
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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF by cheeze on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:39AM (#26537511)
Legal age of consent isn't the same as being moral. These are two separate things.

Nobody is saying we should 'cancel' Canada for having bad laws in the past.

IMO this is a really weak argument.

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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF by capsulecorp on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:16AM (#26538048)
But we should 'cancel' people for having bad views in the past? Got it.
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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF by mpweiher on Monday March 22, 2021 @10:18AM (#26541141)
It is amazing how you equate a fairly random and unusual aspect of US law to "being moral".
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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF by preommr on Sunday March 21, 2021 @09:56PM (#26536033)
+1 We shouldn't be cancelling Canada because of random laws, we should be cancelling them because hockey sucks.
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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF by kgwxd on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:19AM (#26540375)
And ham is not bacon.
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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF by r3856283 on Sunday March 21, 2021 @09:34PM (#26535886)
Not quite. Someone vandalized his name card adding the hot ladies part and took a picture. That was never him. And you turned the quote "pranced around the tables" to "pranced around on the tables." ... why?
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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF by r3856283 on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:21AM (#26537400)
The parent was edited. Thanks.
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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF by snvzz on Sunday March 21, 2021 @09:25PM (#26535828)
Here's another review[0] of the events.

[0] https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/

A character assassination campaign, and nothing more than that.

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