• peppermint@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    forgive my harsh judgement, this is just another media attack. the guy founded gnu, and made more than most people will ever do. I don’t care how judged he is as a person. that’s nothing to do with his contributions.

    we’ve seen media attacks against Weinstein, and that was useful for sumney redstone who bought the company for third of its original valuation and a lot of people who stood up to sexual harassment. I can hardly imagine the latter happening with stallman’s removal.

    My position is, why would you sign it if nobody is paying you to do it. Ideals are good but if you’re not getting paid for a media attack than somebody definitely is.

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      3 years ago

      are you implying that talking sexual abuse is just a tool to get money ? I hope you aren’t

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        3 years ago

        no, I’m implying that crowd hate is a tool to justify accusing someone without a judicial process.