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0 pointsmisterdoubt6y ago0 comments

Judging from the balance in this thread I'd say he's still extremely employable.

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Defending someone’s speech rights (no matter how horrible the speech is) is very different from wanting to work with someone.

KirinDave6y ago

There are no applicable speech rights in a legal sense within RMS's personal scope, so I'm skeptical of this intent.

seanmcdirmid6y ago

There are speech rights that are not protected legally, rather based on culture, tradition, and so on. I don’t know what these are like at MIT, but they are fairly broad in a lot of western educational institutions.

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seanmcdirmid6y ago

Defending someone’s speech rights (no matter how horrible the speech is) is very different from wanting to work with someone.

KirinDave6y ago

There are no applicable speech rights in a legal sense within RMS's personal scope, so I'm skeptical of this intent.

seanmcdirmid6y ago

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