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Sarah Mei
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Powerful statement this morning from @conservancy, another free software nonprofit: “We [...] want to underscore that allowing Stallman to continue to hold a leadership position would be an unacceptable compromise.”

#cancelstallman
It continues: ”Most importantly, we cannot support anyone, directly or indirectly, who condones the endangerment of vulnerable people by rationalizing any part of _predator_ behavior.” (emphasis mine)

That’s an important word to have in this discussion.
Worth reading the whole thing. Aligning social justice with software freedom is not an approach I’ve seen officially before. sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/…
Just in: the GNOME Foundation joins the call to #cancelstallman.

blog.halon.org.uk/2019/09/gnome-…
"One of the GNOME Foundation’s strategic goals is to be an exemplary community in terms of diversity & inclusion. I feel we can’t continue to have a formal association with the FSF or the GNU project when its main voice in the world is saying things that hurt this aim."

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Sarah Mei
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Get yer tin-foil hats ready....apparently I'm part of a CONSPIRACY! A tweet about the Stallman nonsense:
Add "corporate tech goon" to my twitter bio?
I think it’s pretty funny that I’ve started getting the “who’s paying you??? OMG CONSPURACY” mentions.

As if Stallman didn’t make enemies of EVERY woman he interacted with in the 90s?!
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Sarah Mei
@sarahmei
I was expecting a terrible non-apology from Stallman, but this is even worse than I thought it would be. #cancelstallman
Still canceled. Perfect summary:
EXACTLY. Stallman is incapable of preventing “misunderstanding,” so as long as anyone listens to him, he will continue to lob these grenades of “misunderstanding” into our communities that just “happen” to push women & girls, specifically, out of software.
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Sarah Mei
@sarahmei
I've tweeted for many years about how awful Richard "RMS" Stallman is - the pedophilia, the ableism, the misogyny.

Inevitably, each time I do, dudes examine my receipts & then say "all those incidents are from years ago! he's changed now!"

NOPE. medium.com/@selamie/remov…
Stallman was the founder - and is STILL the President and Board Chair - of the Free Software Foundation. The FSF is enormously influential. Among other activities, it publishes the software licenses used by much of the 'copyleft' world - the GPL, LGPL, and AGPL licenses.
I've been a diehard free & open source software user, contributor, and backer since college in the 90s. But at this point, I would rather run proprietary software that I can NEVER see or change if the alternative is to run software licensed by the FSF.
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Heather Piwowar
@researchremix
Been thinking about @mit @MIT_CSAIL #Stallman

I started at MIT in 1991 as a 18yo girl who'd coded in LISP for 4 years, gobbled up Society of Mind, competed in high school national science fairs with a neural net I'd trained to recognize emotions in music (kinda ;) ).

1/n
Needless to say, studying AI at MIT was a dream come true.

Then I dropped out of AI and CS by the end of my freshman year.

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Big 🧠 #MIT Prof #RichardStallman uses his huge intelligence to deduct #Epstein's underage age sex slave WANTED IT😡

Claims she was "Entirely Willing" in victim shaming email blast to @medialab colleagues on Anti-Epstein protests @MIT

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Here is a link to the full #jeffreyepstein email by creepy computer scientist @MIT professor #RichardStallman. Could not look more like a victim shaming troll if he tried.

@MIT REMOVE RICHARD STALLMAN‼

#AnOpenSecret

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Credit to @selamjie for finding & posting 🤞

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#DailyPolitics #Libdems #Conservatives #labour #bbcdp
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This all started because the #MetPolice & #LBRUT couldn't do their jobs properly & then decided to take the law into their own hands. The result of this decision has led to events stranger than fiction

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