Noah Gibbs

You are really confused. The whole cancel crowd is clueless. You are equating "expressing ideas that disturb you" is not the same as "inciting to commit crime" which is not "committing crime". Can you fathom that expressing ideas or arguing is different from committing a crime?

«Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.»

What's the next step? Hanging him for thoughtcrime?

What @sarahmei is doing is akin to what @RTErdogan is doing in Turkey. His juges recently gave a 9 year jail term to a political leader for "insulting tweets" sent 6 years ago. The cancel crowd is at the same level as dictators.https://twitter.com/ilginkarl/status/1169958204547194880 …

But... FOSS already has to obey Washington trade sanctions if it's Americans contributing. That was the whole problem with Americans working on Crypto code back in the 90s, right? That doesn't "open a door" that is already wide open, decades since.

If the US state department cared enough to shut down github, ie they wanted to deny certain nationalalities contributing code, then I don't think they'd overlook FOSS. This would be one of many conduits flowing in to the decision making, same for GPL alarming automanufacturers.

Explaining the attack on Stallman as ultimately decided by something he did or did not say is the dumbest of all takes. The majority of important context is ignored.