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197 points pkilgore | 3 comments | 14 Oct 24 14:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.443s | source
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asrt ◴[15 Oct 24 07:07 UTC] No.41845750[source]▶
The anonymous authors of this website have instructed people on other websites to come here and downvote any and all comments that speak in favor of RMS:https://mastodon.social/@report_press/113305688857205037

This is telling. They don't want discourse, they want to silence and bully everyone who disagrees with them so only they are allowed to speak.

All they have is anonymous accusations with zero proof, an off-context quote regarding an MIT professor, off-color jokes made 50 years ago and a couple of (retracted) opinions that are no worse than the things being said by prominent philosophers like Michel Foucault and Simone de Beauvoir.

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jdiez17[dead post] ◴[15 Oct 24 07:12 UTC] No.41845770[source]▶
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asrt ◴[15 Oct 24 07:17 UTC] No.41845796[source]▶
>If you want to discuss our report on Hacker News, you will have to help us overcome the systemic reactionary bias on HN.

The message is clear: HN has a "bias" (according to them) and their readers must take action in order to discuss it.

It could be that readers here disagree with them, it could be that readers don't buy their attempt at character assassination, instead they play victims as if there was a grand conspiracy to keep a homeless old man with cancer at the head of a nonprofit.

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palant[dead post] ◴[15 Oct 24 07:37 UTC] No.41845882[source]▶
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1. anonair ◴[15 Oct 24 11:05 UTC] No.41847286[source]▶
How do we know that there are no powerful men behind anonymous accusations?
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2. palant ◴[15 Oct 24 11:35 UTC] No.41847440[source]▶
As I said: “according to many credible witnesses, not all of them anonymous. Heck, some of it is even on video.”
3. shadowgovt ◴[15 Oct 24 12:22 UTC] No.41847813[source]▶
This seems like an irrelevant tangent. Powerful men can hold other powerful men to account, that is still holding powerful men to account.

(In fact, one change desired by is for powerful men to stop reflexively responding to allegations like these by protecting each other and being more skeptical of unsubstantiated pleas of innocence, given the statistics that we know on the nature of sexual assault allegations).