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It’s been more than a week since Stallman resigned from the @FSF. The organization has still not communicated even _vague_ plans for moving forward. #cancelstallman means not just removing him from power. It means rethinking what the org he created is for - & who it serves.

Oliva, who is the acting board President according to their bylaws, has expressed no sympathy for Stallman’s hundreds of harassment victims. He has expressed no sympathy for the adult survivors of child sexual assault who had to listen to Stallman defend that crime for decades.

Yet Oliva has found the time - twice! - to express deep sympathy for the man who harassed those women. The man who spent decades defending child sexual assault. The man who compared developmentally disabled people to pets.

The @fsf board members, of course, can choose for themselves whether to stay. But the organization they built, & that they run, enabled an abuser to harass & belittle & push innumerable people out of the free software movement.

Make no mistake: the @fsf was _purpose built_ to enable Stallman - both in his activism, and in his harassment.