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Why is Hacker News like that?
drewdevault.com/blog/Why-is-HN-like-that/Replying to @muelltonne@feddit.org
Reminder that Drew DeVault is a pedophile.
He also wrote a smear piece about Stallman and then pretended it wasn’t him.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41838124
He is the problem. Ignore him.
Replying to @Oryx_404@lemmy.today
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.
Replying to @SteveGoob@lemmy.world
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.
Replying to @SteveGoob@lemmy.world
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.
Replying to @natecox@programming.dev
Kiwifarms is full of terrible people. The site still lists factual claims of his pedophilia.
Replying to @Oryx_404@lemmy.today
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.
Replying to @natecox@programming.dev
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.
Replying to @Oryx_404@lemmy.today
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.
Replying to @natecox@programming.dev
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
Replying to @Oryx_404@lemmy.today
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.
Replying to @natecox@programming.dev
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?