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The Stallman Report

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197 points pkilgore | 2 comments | 14 Oct 24 14:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.405s | 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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1. joshuajill ◴[15 Oct 24 12:27 UTC] No.41847853[source]▶
The link provided doesn't mention that.

They did in another post ask for people to "Don't necessarily upvote it -- just "vouch" for it if you think it's on-topic."

By the way the report is pretty solid.

https://mastodon.social/@report_press/113306313558293261

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2. 0x_rs ◴[15 Oct 24 16:17 UTC] No.41850123[source]▶
For the sake of correctness, it should be noted it did not say that when first posted, only "Enable showdead in your profile, find the post on /newest, and click [vouch] whenever it's flagged.". It was later changed into "Don't upvote it -- just "vouch" for it if you think it belongs.", and immediately after "Don't necessarily upvote it -- just "vouch" for it if you think it's on-topic.". The revision history is available on Mastodon by pressing the "Last Edited" hypertext.