This comment is infuriatingly wrong.
Stallman did nothing of the sort. Stallman's "crime" was having the audacity of pointing out that the technical definition of the crime matching the accusations was statutory rape. That's it.
And now he's out of a job.
But I am glad he did.
Look I agree what he did was dumb, but he is free to voice an opinion on anything he likes. We don't have to agree with it but we don't have to turn it into a witch hunt either..
this guy isn’t being hounded out of his job over one slip of the tongue, one mistake. he has been making these comments for a long time, and it finally caught up to him.
this is entirely a problem of his own making.
Stop with the bullshit already. Stallman himself stated that the accusations (being offered sex by a 17yo girl) amount to statutory rape. In what twisted mind does this come even close to match your entirely made up story?
Stick to the facts instead of resorting to use your imagination to fabricate any support for your self-righteous witch-hunt.
and he SHOULD lose his job. he isn’t some grunt programmer, he is the senior representative of the FSF and the FSF deserves to have people on its board that aren’t going to embroil them in such boneheaded and unnecessary distractions, and they deserve someone on their board who shows better judgement than this.
and unlike some people here I am not about to split hairs about whether a 14 year old girl that is being groomed for prostitution is or is not capable of giving consent, and i’m not about to engage in semantic quibbles about what the right _word_ is to describe someone who engages in these things.
some you are completely missing the forest for the trees here.
An accusation of someone having sex with a 17yo does not correspond to pedophilia anywhere in the world.
> and suggesting that girls (...) might have been entirely willing participants, is exactly what he said
He said that if all girls were willing participants then the accusation of having consentual sex with a 17yo girl corresponds to statutory rape.
Stick to the facts.
This is a problem entirely of his own making, stretching out over decades.
The honest reaction to being forced to recognize that the absurd accusations being thrown at Stallman are absurd, entirely made up, and without any link to what he actually said is not to try desperately to move the goal post.
Stick to the facts.