Stallman deserves neither gratitude nor solidarity.
His enablers, like Oliva, don't either.
#cancelstallman
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After the Jacob Applebaum incident in 2016, the board of directors for the Tor project ALL resigned. The structure they'd built & perpetuated was what allowed the problem to happen. Tor would never recover without a fresh start. The
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Similarly: just firing Travis K. didn't magically make Uber more ethical or inclusive. Like the
@fsf, Uber was built as a monoculture - a cult of personality - from the start.1 reply 9 retweets 83 likesShow this thread -
Uber remains a deeply unethical and untrustworthy company _precisely because_ they lopped off the head without dismantling the structure it built.
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If the remaining board members of
@fsf truly care about advancing the cause of free software, they will resign. Let the organization rebuild. Gerald J. Sussman@gknauth@HenryPoole@makoshark@bkuhn_ebb_org@mindspillage Alexandre Oliva#cancelstallman4 replies 21 retweets 92 likesShow this thread -
Let me add here some comments from current
@fsf board member@gknauth about my original thread from last week, listing 30 years of Stallman-related incidents. First, he calls my previous threads "slanderous accusations" (despite the IN-THREAD receipts).pic.twitter.com/oyXp1FaHZ7
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He goes on to insinuate that the accusations against Stallman amount to "high school gossip."pic.twitter.com/5eZTHmNk4e
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He then uses the word "slander" again to characterize my statements of fact about a public figure, and defends Stallman for having done "great good."pic.twitter.com/WhTVm4Op8e
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None of the other board members have made public statements. Based on the two we have, though, I see no indication that the
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Orion Montoya Retweeted Sarah Mei
FWIW
@bkuhn_ebb_org is president of@conservancy which issued this statement that you noted: https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1173629251456647175?s=21 … not signed in his own name, but a strong public statementOrion Montoya added,
Sarah MeiVerified account @sarahmeiPowerful 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 https://twitter.com/conservancy/status/1173603417769545734 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Not that this is enough to make @fsf recoverable!!
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