Renowned MIT Scientist Defends Epstein: Victims Were ‘Entirely Willing’I defended Stallman a few weeks ago re: his views on free software. Unsurprisingly, he has no idea what kids are or what makes them kids. I would bet that he has not interacted with a child for decades or possibly even at all. And yet I'm still surprised that goes as far to say there "consensual pedophilia" is OK.
In 2006, he said it wouldn’t so bad for an adult man who worked for the Department of Homeland Security to have sex with a 14-year-old, as one government employee had allegedly propositioned: “Supposing she had voluntarily had sex with him, presuming that they used a condom and suitable contraception, it would have done no harm to either of them.”
He reiterated his point in 2013: “There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.”
As opposed to big tech as he is, he really is just another tech guy that lazily assumes that however he imagines a domain he has no experience with just works the way he imagines and that problems in that domain exist simply people are just being stupid, people's actual expertise and experience be damned. Goodbye, RMS. C-x C-c