On Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 11:57 AM Howard Gibson via talk, <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 21:46:00 -0400 Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
... hopefully, not for long.
Evan,
Some useful and interesting references...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
Rational Wiki is interesting, since it is opinionated as all hell. Wikipedia is required to maintain a neutral tone.
Thanks for posting this. Rational Wiki had a fact I wasn't aware of regarding the editing of a Vice article.
"Eventually, discussions between Stallman and the rest of the CSAIL mailing list would end up getting forwared to another student at MIT, who published the story on Medium.[38] <https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#cite_note-removerms-40> The story started getting minor traction, until VICE ran an article on it[39] <https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#cite_note-removermsvice-41>. The article, whilst mostly accurate would remove the second sentence from the emphasized paragraph, which ended up making Stallman look like he was defending Epstein. This resulted in the story blowing up and most news outlets, rather than verifying the original emails (which VICE had attached to their article[40] <https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#cite_note-removermsmails-42>) simply ended up copying VICEs shortening of the headline."
Are they trying to disassociate themselves from a criminal, or do they just want to not be represented by an asshole? Stallman has certainly demonstrated the importance of public figures STFU when the topic is something they don't understand.
Somtimes you have to dig for your knowledge. It may be valid, even though you don't like the envelope it arrives in. Generally people make mistakes and errors in judgement all the time. Its how we correct those errors and mistakes that describes the content of our character. Of course that an impossible thing when someone edits your words after the fact and then the mob runs with that.
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