internet gryphon. admin of Beehaw, mostly publicly interacting with people. nonbinary. they/she
Stallman is the type of guy–in any case–where i think you can remove the ideas from the person without issue (quite literally here, since part of his whole deal is copyleft). it is the case that he is extremely influential in how these ideas have been formulated and manifest,[1] but they’re really not things that live or die by him as a person.
probably to their detriment at times, but that’s a sidenote here not worth pursuing ↩︎
I don’t want to recap the FediDrama here (drama recaps have a way of becoming drama themselves), but I suspect it’s the reason he’s taking a break.
to be clear for those not in the loop, this would be the thing going around about Meta/Facebook and NDAs, correct?
i can’t pretend i know who this guy is but: i’m pretty sure he has iffy politics. i scrolled through the comments on this video the other day (because we’re mentioned in it, and just to get a sense of who watches his videos) and i immediately came away with the sense that his community is full of right-wing freaks who think censorship is when you moderate and who are mad that trans people exist. i think counted at least three blatantly transphobic comments in a brief scroll, and the general vibe of that comment section was like a youtube facsimile of 4chan. as a content creator, you have the agency to make dipshits like that unwelcome–so the fact that he isn’t is uh, telling, imo.