Twitter at the speed of parenting
The acting President of the @fsf board, Alexandre Olive, had these comments on Stallman's departure:
#cancelstallmanpic.twitter.com/9dwYCuVwBf
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This is really important. Stallman is gone, but the house he built remains. The @fsf board is still stacked with his supporters.
As we look towards what the future of free software COULD be, we need to dismantle that twisted structure and rebuild something better.https://twitter.com/cra/status/1174327879955562501 …
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Useful to note here is Oliva's complete lack of consideration for Stallman's victims. Like Stallman, he believes his 'dear friend' has done nothing wrong. [re-posted to correct Oliva's last name]
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Where is Oliva's 'solidarity' with the hundreds of women Stallman sexually harassed at MIT and at conferences?
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Where is Oliva's 'solidarity' with all the women Stallman leered at, targeted with "pleasure cards," denigrated, and pushed out of the free software movement?
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Where is Oliva's 'solidarity' with CHILDREN who cannot consent to a sexual relationship with an adult? Where is his 'solidarity' with the adult survivors of that abuse, who had to read Stallman's defense of it REPEATEDLY over the course of DECADES?
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Where is Oliva's 'solidarity' with disabled people, whom Stallman likened to 'pets,' and wrote on his blog that they should have been aborted?
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Stallman deserves neither gratitude nor solidarity. His enablers, like Oliva, don't either.
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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.Show 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#cancelstallmanShow 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
@fsf is recoverable in its current state.#cancelstallmanShow this thread
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If they asked would you do it? I think you'd be a refreshing voice.
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I don't think I'm qualified. I've avoided the free software movement so assiduously for the last 10+ years (because of Stallman & his supporters) that I don't feel like I understand at any depth what they're trying to accomplish.
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THIS IS BAD PEOPLE WHO PERSONALLY KNOW HIM THINK HES AN ALRIGHT GUY AND THAT GOES AGAINST MY (AN OUTSIDER) OPINION THIS CAN NOT STAND
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