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Stories by Selam G. on Medium
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Stories by Selam G. on Medium is a personal blog at selamjie.medium.com about politics. Since 2020, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-25, and you can follow it by feed.
37mentions?
4recommend?
26HN people?
2020–2024first – last linked?
Rarely recommended · 4 of 33 sampled comments recommend it, 8 are critical?
Why HN links it
Selam G.'s Medium posts, especially the 'Remove Richard Stallman' pieces, document allegations about Richard Stallman's conduct. HN threads on his FSF removal and return often link them as the main source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 33 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /remove-richard-stallman-appendix-a-a7e41e784f8816 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2020-10-29
- /remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21079410 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2021-03-22
What Hacker News says?
I recall I left Mozilla before the same-sex marriage fight, but I'm familiar with it. Just as I wouldn't call Brendan or gerv a psycho-sadist, I also wouldn't call the people who called for their resignations names, nor group them all together. I think name-calling, especially of a large group which shares only one thing in common is antithetical to building inclusive human communities. Literally we're excluding peo…
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on “I Violated a Code of Conduct”I am on a quest for facts, hard in this debate. So this was the original post that lead to RMS resign. https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21... Here is a defending one. https://whoisylvia.medium.com/richard-stallman-has-been-vili... But there I have a question. Regarding the "Knight for justice (and hot ladies)" sign. "not the sign about welcoming “hot ladies” on his MIT Media lab office door,…
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on “Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF”https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix... Among other examples: “When I was a teen freshman, I went to a buffet lunch at an Indian restaurant in Central Square with a graduate student friend and others from the AI lab. I don’t know if he and I were the last two left, but at a table with only the two of us, Richard Stallman told me of his misery and that he’d kill himself if I didn’t go out with…
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on “Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF”> I think it's also worth asking why he didn't have more an impact Yes... https://opensourcetogo.blogspot.com/2009/07/good-gcds-beginn... I https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21... Wonder https://www.wired.com/story/richard-stallman-and-the-fall-of... Why https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/richard-stallman...
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on “The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton”From emails posted here: https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21... > The announcement of the Friday event does an injustice to Marvin Minsky: > “deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assaulting one of Epstein’s victims [2])” [ ... ] > We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing.
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on “RMS addresses the free software community”Mostly in-person around MIT (just like Captain Crunch or Jake Appelbaum in the conference scene... informal until it wasn't), but a few have made it onto the web. See #2 here: https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...
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on “RMS addresses the free software community”https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix... >I recall being told early in my freshman year “If RMS hits on you, just say ‘I’m a vi user’ even if it’s not true.” >Richard Stallman told me of his misery and that he’d kill himself if I didn’t go out with him. There's also his office door at one point: https://miro.medium.com/max/1050/1*lDSkAjF1958TpEafxuJsLg.jp... (source: https://selamjie.medium.co…
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on “Cancel We The Web? (2020)”Yes, it is good form to link to the claims you are debunking, but these claims are not strawmen. If you want an example of people making untrue claims about "Email #2", here's one very popular Medium post doing just that: > ... and then says that an enslaved child could, somehow, be "entirely willing". https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21... The dead comment next to mine has more examples. Th…
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on “In Support of Richard Stallman”>Do you have sources for the "well documented" views that pedophilia is not harmful and that children can give consent and should be allowed to engage in sexual intercourse? Because the blurb above certainly does not say any of that. Apart from the appendix linked to in the open letter being critiqued in the OP, there is this often mentioned quote by the man himself: “I am sceptical of the claim that voluntarily ped…
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on “A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS”I would say this is a pretty good run-down - https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix... .
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on “Free Software: An idea whose time has passed?”Here is the original hit piece leading to RMS' cancellation, which includes a full copy of the "offending" email: https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21... The media then twisted that into "Famed Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Described Epstein Victims As 'Entirely Willing'" [0], which is not something that RMS claimed in that email. To this day there has been no redactin, apology or anyth…
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on “Improving MIT’s written commitment to freedom of expression”> this anonymous blog post https://selamjie.medium.com The author's name is right there in the URL.
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on “Richard Stallman and the History of Free Software and Open Source (2016)”Other than this anonymous blog post https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21... and some comments he made on a mailing list that were completely twisted, what exactly did he do wrong?
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on “Richard Stallman and the History of Free Software and Open Source (2016)”https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix... >I recall being told early in my freshman year “If RMS hits on you, just say ‘I’m a vi user’ even if it’s not true.” >Richard Stallman told me of his misery and that he’d kill himself if I didn’t go out with him. There are plenty of primary sources, and they're not "corporate lobbyists". RMS is toxic.
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on “Bruce Perens: On Non-Judicical Punishment of Individuals”I don’t think Stallman is irrelevant. He’s still in charge of the GNU stuff, he still blocks progress on GCC, he still has donors and an audience, he’s still a pedophilia apologist. Edit: https://www.vice.com/en/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-scient... https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...
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on “Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel”> People should lose their jobs over things like sexual or any type of harassment but when I read Stallman's actual comments last year, I thought that it was very clear that he was only defending his friend, who was dead and couldn't defend himself. RMS seems to have a long history: > The stories of thirty years of MIT women alumni. * https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix... Also: * https://rm…
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on “Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation”Did you, uh, read the medium link that I and the appendix linked to? https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix... He threatened suicide if a woman wouldn't date him. That's abusive manipulation. He, unsolicitedly hands out 'pleasure cards' to women at conferences. That's harassment: Conferences are a interest and professional environment; they're not Tinder. Having a bed in his office at MIT is cr…
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on “Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation”Stallman seems to have a history of being manipulative and sexually harassing women. https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix... He also has some troubling views that at best make him an inappropriate spokesperson. https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix
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on “Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation”Start here: https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...
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on “Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation”I can link you some examples, but a complete list is impossible. In the middle of this article: https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...
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on “RMS Support Letter”He also said: “I think it is morally absurd to define “rape” in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.” Source: https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21... He is defending a 73 year old who had sex with a 17 year old. He doesn't know the 17 yo in the situation, is calling her a part of a harem and saying that it's not "rea…
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on “Red Hat Pulls Free Software Foundation Funding over Richard Stallman's Return”It's pretty incredible that after years and years of searching, all what cancel-activists[0] could find against Stallman was - Stallman reminding folks of the lack of key evidence in the allegations against Minsky. - A graffiti on his door at MIT - The fact he had a mattress in his office - Some awkward social interactions he allegedly had (it's all anonymous, there's no way to know) All from a blog-post. [0] https:…
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on “Richard Stallman back at Free Software Foundation, says he won’t quit again”> I do find it terrifying though how he is lynched for what is essentially rational and permissible speech in an ugly wrapper. What he said in 2019 was basically the last straw for many people of behaviour that stretches back a decade or three: * https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix... He hasn't admitted to doing anything wrong, or feeling regret for any words/actions, and so the thinking is…
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on ““I am announcing my resignation from the FSF board””It’s not just the opinions he’s held (some of which are incredibly disgusting) but it’s also the things he’s done at MIT. I encourage you to read the stories [1] of those who have interacted with him. This isn’t “cancel culture gone mad”, this is a terrible person being held accountable for their actions. [1] https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...
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on ““I am announcing my resignation from the FSF board””Right but what are we actually doing to cancel Bill Gates? The information that Bill Gates had meetings with Epstein came to light 2 years ago but we still had articles promoting the Gates foundation and Gates work with vaccines. Bill Gates worked with MIT on quantum dot tech: https://news.mit.edu/2019/storing-vaccine-history-skin-1218 Bill Gates donated money to MIT's Media Lab: https://www.businessinsider.com/bill…
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on “Bill Gates says it was a "huge mistake" to spend time with Epstein”Er, if you found my previous post criticising his behaviour, you should have found the article I cited previously. Here is the article link again: https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix... Specifically, here is one of many accusations in that article: > When I was a teen freshman, I went to a buffet lunch at an Indian restaurant in Central Square with a graduate student friend and others from t…
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on “Bill Gates says it was a "huge mistake" to spend time with Epstein”This is not what happened. The mass attack on Stallman happened after Selam Jie Gano wrote her hate piece[0] full of half-truths and manipulations that later were quoted by the media as "Stallman is defending Epstein" whereas the opposite was true. When I compared what RMS actually wrote with what the press reported, I was appalled - it's as if people collectively lost their ability to read. [0] https://selamjie.med…
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on “Bill Gates says it was a "huge mistake" to spend time with Epstein”It's pretty incredible that after years and years of searching, all what cancel-activists[0] could find against Stallman was: - Stallman reminding folks of the lack of key evidence in the allegations against Minsky. - A graffiti on his door at MIT - The fact he had a mattress in his office - Some awkward social interactions he allegedly had (it's all anonymous, there's no way to know) All from a blog-post. [0] https…
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on “Statement on Re-Election of Richard Stallman to Free Software Foundation Board”No. It is incorrect that a significant part of the accusations against Stallman have to do with his use of pronouns. The issues people have with Stallman are with his behavior, specifically around women, with numerous anecdotal accusations of unwanted sexual advances, touching, "creepy" behavior, etc. As well controversial beliefs such as supporting pedophilia (which, in his defense, he has recanted) which have led…
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on ““If you have software under GNU GPLv3 *or later*, relicense it to GPLv3-only””> His only crime was being a pedantic aspie. If you actually read the article by Selam G., you'll immediately see that this is false. "When I was a teen freshman, I went to a buffet lunch at an Indian restaurant in Central Square with a graduate student friend and others from the AI lab. I don’t know if he and I were the last two left, but at a table with only the two of us, Richard Stallman told me of his misery an…
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on “ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awful It Is”
