Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS): "There are still people who make it their business to try to stop me from getting invited to speak, and it's a slow process working back from that"
From the talk he gave last month:
What did you learn from the attempt to cancel you? Well, I learned first of all it's not clearly a thing of the past. I wish it were. There are still people who make it their business to try to stop me from getting invited to speak, and it's a slow process working back from that. However, I learned the ability to stay calm and not react by getting upset and instead think carefully about what I should do. I am much, much better at keeping my self control when I respond to antagonistic attitudes. In fact it was amusing. I got a hate phone call about that time and someone I didn't know said, "you defended Epstein", I said I didn't and a couple of interchanges like that and I brought it into a reasonable conversation. I felt pretty good about that. We went on for a while talking about various questions of right and wrong and how I had tried to do the right thing in connection with them. And what I thought, because I certainly did not approve of Epstein and I appreciate that his actions were quite hurtful and I never said otherwise. So she was able to understand me too.