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FSF May Not be Trustworthy Anymore, It's Believed/Said to Have Just Defaced Richard Stallman's Personal Web Site (Updated)

Update (01/10/2019): Stallman has told us that "stallman.org has not moved. It has been hosted by the same company for many years. It was never hosted by the FSF. On the contrary, I started it to keep it separate from the FSF." Corrected text below.

Update (03/10/2019): Richard Stallman has since then stated he wants people to support the FSF.

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Summary: The FSF is now actively 'attacking' its very own founder, whose Web site is said to have been defaced by FSF staff

"Stallman.org was defaced by an FSF employee," I have just been told, "the deface has been reverted, and the domain appears to now be operating on non-FSF infrastructure...”



"The FSF must now issue a statement naming the culprit who defaced Stallman's Web site," I said. This is pretty serious. We heard rumours to that effect about 7 hours ago, but we were unable to verify and did not know who had done that. These rumours noted that other indicators of a defacement existed; "RMS' site may have been tampered with," somebody said in #techrights (IRC) at 4AM. "Some discussion elsewhere noted that the link to the "donate to the Free Software Foundation" leads to a youtube video as seen in this snapshot (it has since been fixed): https://archive.is/Yya6g . It might be a good idea to contact him regarding the two "step down" notices (one recent, other was his "remain" post edited) on his site to clear things up."

"Something is going on and rumours suggest that large corporations play a role.""Looks like code isn't the only thing some people are deleting," said the same person.

For those who have just woken up on a lazy Sunday, here's some background. Earlier today we mentioned Richard Stallman's message (succinct site post) in which he said he had stepped down from GNU (just two days after saying the exact opposite). He has since then removed the post, causing a lot of confusion and unnecessary speculation that we won't reproduce here because we don't know all the facts (at least not yet). Something is going on and rumours suggest that large corporations play a role. The name "Saleforce" has been thrown around by several people, but there's no 'smoking gun' evidence by which to prove a link. As far as we're aware, Stallman has not responded to anyone to explain the withdrawal of his post about withdrawing from GNU. It's a mystery, but the above update comes from a generally reliable source. We judge reliability based on connections and track record.

He later said "the deface was reverted [and] now stallman.org is not hosted on FSF servers (it was before). [And] given that stallman.org is basically 100% html, no php or whatever that means it pretty much had to be an inside job."

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