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by ByTheBook 1901 days ago
What exactly did he do ? From what I've gathered he gave out cards which was basically an invitation to a date with him should anyone be interested, and he made a very ill-concieved statement regarding harm from children having sex with adults. A really stupid comment but hardly something that would warrant this kind of response, at least unless he doubled down on it.

Is this all ?
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Qub3d 1901 days ago
The initial push that led to his resignation from the FSF board came down to some comments supporting Marvin Minsky, who was an associate of Jeffery Epstein. This, combined with anecdata about RMS having a history of crude and insensitive comments was too much for a lot of people.

Note that I'm not taking a side here, I'm mostly summarizing the below article:

https://itsfoss.com/richard-stallman-controversy/

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