In a recently unsealed deposition a woman testified that, at the age of 17, Epstein told her to have sex with Marvin Minsky. Minsky was a co-founder of the MIT Media Lab and pioneer in A.I. who died in 2016. Stallman argued on a mailing list (in response to a statement from a protest organizer accusing Minsky of sexual assault) that, while he condemned Epstein, Minsky likely did not know she was being coerced:
>We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.
Someone wrote blogpost called "Remove Richard Stallman" quoting the argument
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Media outlets like then misquoted Stallman as saying that the woman was "entirely willing" (rather than pretending to be) and as "defending Epstein". Some examples:
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Note the deposition doesn't say she had sex with Minsky, only that Epstein told her to do so.
Since then Greg Benford, who was present at the time, has stated that she propositioned Minsky and he turned her down:
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>I know; I was there. Minsky turned her down. Told me about it. She saw us talking and didn’t approach me.
This seems like a complete validation of the distinction Stallman was making. If what Minsky knew doesn't matter, if there's no difference between "Minsky sexually assaulted a woman" and "Epstein told a 17-year-old to have sex with Minsky without his knowledge or consent", then why did he turn her down? We're supposed to consider a dead man a rapist for sex he didn't have because of something Epstein did without his knowledge, possibly even in a failed attempt to create blackmail material against him? Despite this Stallman has now been pressured to resign from both MIT and, more importantly, the Free Software Foundation he founded.
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He should've refused to back down to political animals.
I think Stallman's point was broader than; ie that the term 'assault' may be unhelpful in describing otherwise consensual statutory rape. But certain groups of people have been gunning for him for a long time before this.
Oh also, remember Nixon: The media is the enemy.
This looks like a 9D chess move, Stallman is shady as fuck.
Looks like the jew... got jewed this time. * puts sunglasses *
Stallman openly criticised Israel on numerous occasions and boycotted Israeli universities on his lecture tours.
This. Learn this lesson, guys. Dont fold. Dont even bend.
Glownigger character assassination, you don't need to look at the source goyim, we promise there are no backdoors
How many in here would be fucked if the blue checkmarks were able to get Congress to raise the age of consent to 21?
>You are now a pedo if you have sex with an 18-20 year old.
Are the leather-hag roasties trying to get it to 21? Where'd all the sex positivity go? Oh right, they're mad that men desire young women and not blown-out old catcher's mitts.