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Please read this to get another point of view on the calls to ostracize RMS. It has facts, quotes, and givies analysis from Nadine Strossen, former president of the ACLU.

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

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I cancelled my monthly contribution to the Mozilla foundation.

Thanks, interesting article. I agree that a lot of his supposed crimes consist of talking about—and, most of the time, saying very reasonable things about—subjects which 'normal' people understand are taboo to publicly talk/reason/think about.

I thought this was funny, in an article defending Stallman:

"I have had 3 lunches, 1 free software event, and 1 long car ride with Richard Stallman... In that span of time he managed to confront and berate me countless times. He is by far the most disagreeable person I’ve ever met."

This makes me want to read Nadine Strossen's books. Interestingly "Defending Pornography" came out the same year Wendy McElroy's "XXX" did. (http://www.wendymcelroy.com/xxx/) Interesting coincidence.

It’s sad how far the ACLU has fallen. Where they were once principled, with leaders like Nadine, they have instead turned into just another partisan activist organization. Their social media posts look like a college student’s overly-conformist and simplistic personal Twitter feed. I sadly ended up cancelling my donations after supporting them for years.

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