What a string of grasping at straws. I’m sure this (Attempted) character assassination has nothing to do with Drew DeVault publicly naming and shaming fascist developers, with receipts.

Those are probably terrible people too. Drew DeVault is still a pedophile that stirs up shit to benefit himself.

Both can be true

Drew has posted a response in defense of these allegations.

Having read it as well the “report” on him you linked, I personally find the report lacks credibility. I take much more stock in Drew’s accounting of things, including his mature ownership of the bad decisions he’s made in the past.

As for the Stallman Report: it’s not a smear piece in my view. It’s a whistleblow that outlines an argument why RMS is unfit to lead the FSF with accompanying evidence. You may disagree with some of it, but it’s hardly malicious; I can sympathize with anyone who wishes to see better from the leaders of the major social movements of our day.

And as for why Drew initially denied his involvement, I found his response reasonable:

Myself and the other authors asserted our moral rights to publish anonymously, motivated by our wish to reduce our exposure to the exact sort of harassment I’ve been subjected to over the years.

His rebuttal curiously doesn’t dispute the facts of his pedophilia. It’s included in a blanket denial and then ignored.

Are you claiming those pedophilic accounts aren’t his? Why?

And he did more than “deny” his involvement in the report

Speaking as someone who has done a lot of my own research on Stallman’s bullshit, the depth of this report is astonishing.

That was his report. He can’t be trusted and will openly make bald-faced lies. He’s full of shit and best left in the dustbin of history.

I don’t know Drew, I don’t really give a shit about him at all. He may well be a terrible human being, worthy of all the scorn cast at him. I have no idea.

However, having all of this scorn thrown at him by what appears to be Kiwifarms (very well known for being a cesspool) after penning an article about what a sack of shit RMS is (the exact kind of scum Kiwi would deify) sure does cast a lot of doubt onto all the accusations made against him.

Kiwifarms is full of terrible people. The site still lists factual claims of his pedophilia.

Are they factual? Maybe. It’s possible.

But, do I trust a group of people who make it their whole life to ruin other’s to be honest and objective? Fuck no.

You’re entitled to put your head in the sand.

If anyone else is actually curious, spend a few minutes reading Drew’s response. Lots of words apologizing over a minor detail. Zero response to the facts of his pedophilia. Just read his words. Classic shitbag strategy.

He wrote that response so that people like you can defend his pedophilia in exactly the way you’re doing now.

Or he opted not to validate asinine accusations made by bad faith actors. Neither of us knows.

We do know that kiwifarms is full of scum and filth that would likely make asinine accusations for the lawls.

Something something head in the sand.

Read it, instead of wasting time defending a pedophile.

You’re literally doing the same thing MAGAts do.

Trump is opting not to validate accusations made by bad faith actors. Neither of us knows.

We do know that the liberal media is full of scum and filth that would likely make asinine accusations for the lawls

☝️You, literally right now

I don’t know that he’s a pedophile. I know that people I don’t trust in any way, shape, or form say that he is. That’s not enough for me to definitely call him anything. I’m defending not taking at face value the word of known trolls.

Honestly dude, “these people we can’t trust said something and we need to believe them without reservation because it reinforces my core belief and if you don’t agree you’re literally this enemy” is pretty fucking GOP.

Have you looked at any of the claims yet?

Note that he does not explain all the facts over his activities on the internet.

when I was involved in editing The Stallman Report

I remember when he was “not involved at all” with this report. Now he is?

Oh my God he looks at hentai! Oh, the humanity!

The list of subreddits he programmed his bot to run on includes one, “r/pomf” so pedophilic that it was banned by Reddit, along with many other pedophilic and racist subreddits

I did some research and r/pomf was apparently an ecchi sub with like 50 members.

Mildly problematic at worst…

It was banned with a bunch of other pedophilic subreddits (spez calling them all “animated CP”). Here’s someone complaining about it at the time

For fucks sales I thought I was blessed when I found Reddit Loli community, I’ve spent far to much time on the darker parts of the web to find that stuff, and far to often its thrown in with material that none of us a r/lolicons or r/pomf ever wanted, the real disgusting vile poo poo. it was safe here. Had it been a quarantine I would have understood, We get it out fetish is creepy as gently caress! But we were not hurting anyone. I mean those were probably two of my favorite communities because we understood one another, no one got harassed or attacked like on 4chan or 8chan, were weren’t being flooded with referral links to actual CP by robot spammers, it didn’t feel like some dark alley where I had to do shady deals for a fix, for once were safe and I didn’t feel ashamed, I didn’t hate myself, And you took it away because you don’t like it! That’s your only reason, you clumped us together with a bunch of racist, hate mongering assholes because you found our fetish morally objectionable. And don’t act like your doing some great deed by getting rid of it, it still exists, you’ve just forced us back to the places where were going to abused and harassed to find it, you’re helping no one, your just hurting us, me and my fellow lolis. You’ve left us to fend for ourselves against a horde of trolls. I’ll never leave reddit, I’ve invested to much, but as a company I’ve lost all faith in you, your saving face, not your community. [EDIT] fixed auto correct mistake and added a sentence for clarification

Stop defending Drew DeVault’s pedophilia.