Free Software Foundation Supports Its Founder, Advertises His Talks in Switzerland
Like it did in January ahead of his talk in Georgia:
About 4 hours ago (3PM Boston time) the FSF doubled down on something that we noticed (then other sites cited us for) back in January. The FSF, after years of not mentioning the talks of its founder, now regularly does this. His acceptability grew and it has gotten very difficult to rationalise not allowing him to talk.
In a sense, the more stubborn and ugly the attacks on him, the more he'll sort of seem or 'feel' (to people) like a 'martyr'. He does not aim for popularity (his positions on many things are exceptional), so the folks who attack him are - at least at some inadvertent way or level - actually legitimising him. It's hard not to also say that we've long sensed the same happened to us after the persistent attacks on our ability/capacity to publish. Some of these attacks were patently illegal, so they weren't about the law or even about morality.
When you suppress voices, assuming the reasons for suppression are bunk, it is always bound to backfire very badly. Is it why, for instance, the popularity rating of Sara Duterte shot up through the roof. â–ˆ
