Sunday IT Wire counted up the number of signatories on two open letters, one opposing Richard Stallman's return to the FSF and one supporting it. - The pro-Stallman letter had 3,632 individual signers - The anti-Stallman letter had 2,812 individual signers (plus 48 companies and organizations). ...
  • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
    -8•3 years ago

    I stand with RMS on this one. Mob cancel culture is simply virtue signalling and doing Western SJW stuff.

    It simply shows these corporates, r/twoxxchromosomes tier feminists and PR culture have an axe to grind against the creator and symbol of free software movement.

    Disclaimer: before anyone thinks I am le right winger, I lean towards democratic socialism and am from India. I happen to know both white/neo nazi and Western SJW cancel cultures. I also have a credible long history on Lemmy.

      • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
        8•3 years ago

        So that people like you can harass and witch hunt me based on 30% truth 70% lies style propaganda? Nope.

        Also I have not signed the letter yet, because I find neither sides fully correct. I lean towards RMS though, because he has done way more for digital freedom than any of these mob reactionaries will ever do together in the coming centuries.

        RMS has not committed any crime, so I do not find him wrong in this. One can speak whatever the hell they want as long as it is not racist, xenophobic or provoking crime.

        • Lilium
          -2•3 years ago

          One can speak whatever the hell they want as long as it is not racist, xenophobic or provoking crime

          But misogyny is where you draw the line?

          • @aab@lemmy.ml
            2•3 years ago

            Oh come on, nice work twisting the words in their mouth.

            Also I’m curious where Stallman has been openly misogynistic, as opposed to just socially clueless.

            • Lilium
              0•3 years ago

              Not twisting anything, just pointing out the hypocrisy in the quoted text.

              Also I’m at work, so I won’t dig in his past behavior on the internet for you now, but I am not the only one mentioning this stuff, which also had a part on RMS’s resign years ago, so there is little reason to still bring his misogyny into question today on 2021. Guy’s a boomer with some outdated boomer views, but being a boomer doesn’t excuse him for not updating his views.