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Re:Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Fre... by throw0101a on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:26PM (#26574969)
> People should lose their jobs over things like sexual or any type of harassment but when I read Stallman's actual comments last year, I thought that it was very clear that he was only defending his friend, who was dead and couldn't defend himself.

RMS seems to have a long history:

> The stories of thirty years of MIT women alumni.

* https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...

Also:

* https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix

The 2019 comments appear to just the latest in a long string of incidents that people are no longer willing to tolerate.

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Re:Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Fre... by claudiawerner on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @10:43PM (#26575969)
For the other side of the issue, please also see:

https://github.com/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.git... and the open letter in support of RMS more generally: https://rms-support-letter.github.io

and, quoting the former president of the ACLU and civil rights activist Nadine Strossen on the Stallman matter:

https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web

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