On: EPFL cancels Stallman's lecture citing “the situat...

[explaininjs]

To those asking, last I heard from Stallman were his comments in the MIT CSAIL mailing list after the Epstein fallout basically of the theme: “some of them surely liked it”.

As far as I’m aware he was ousted from MIT soon after, though the folks who actually signed the checks to/from Epstein faced no such consequences. This is America.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/17/20870050/richard-stallman...

[snvzz → explaininjs]

The arguments in the character assassination campaign were found baseless[0][1][2].

But the cancelation crowd's witch hunt continues even today.

[0] https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-agai...

[1] https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/09/30/in-defense-of-richard-stal...

[2] https://itsfoss.com/richard-stallman-controversy/

[kweingar → snvzz]

I know the things he said, the context he said them in, and the reasons he might have said them, and I still find it appalling. There were some headlines that took some of the quotes out of context, but that doesn't mean that what he said was ok.

[tristan957 → kweingar]

Can you put forward a quote that you were not ok with?

[jasonfarnon → explaininjs]

I imagine, much like in the legal system, there is a reduced penalty for an expression of contrition.