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**Is Richard Stallman a celebrity?** To [us](lrs.md) the question is of importance because we oppose the existence of celebrity status in itself. The answer is likely this: to a certain degree he indeed is a small celebrity (though not nearly a Hollywood scale one, 99% of normal people never heard of him), but at least to a similar level he is just a well known expert in a very important, though obscure area of software ethics. So yes, we ought to dislike the celebrity part -- any worship of a man as god is acceptable only as subject of a [meme](meme.md), we must never see him as a [hero](hero_culture.md) or "leader". He seems to be a very rare case of a mini celebrity that managed to keep a sense of morality despite his fame, perhaps because he never aimed to become famous and his celebrity status, quite uncommonly, came to him rather accidentally, more because he wasn't careful enough to avoid it rather than because he would actively pursue it (which even in his time was rare, and [nowadays](21st_century.md) is probably impossible). This is not an excuse -- if someone resists hard enough, he can never become a celebrity -- but it may be an extenuating circumstance. This is to say: yes, it sucks he's partially a celebrity, but at least one of the least harmful ones.
**Stallman also sucks** just like any other [human](people.md). Some of his sins include: being a [nationalist](nationalism.md) (puts a flag of his country on his website), having totalitarian tendencies (aiming for [GNU](gnu.md) to be the overseer of ethics, a "big brother") and supporting some kind of hierarchy in society, supporting [copyleft](copyleft.md) (perpetuating [copyright](copyright.md) and the "lawyer's game"), supporting [privacy](privacy.md) and other [censorship](censorship.md) as a [means to an end](ends_justify_the_means.md) (e.g. censoring software in repositories for merely not conforming to approved terminology), violating [free culture](free_culture.md) (adding sneaky "invariant sections" to otherwise free documents, making them unfree, also being sensitive/hostile to others incorporating his GNU "brand" without permission), partially being an [SJW](sjw.md) (inventing "gender neutral" pronouns etc.), supporting [hero](hero.md) culture (e.g. calling [Snowden](snowden.md) a "hero"), accepting [bloat](bloat.md), supporting [fight culture](fight_culture.md), practicing [egoism](egoism.md) (putting himself in center of attention by accepting the role of chief GNUisance, ruining [anarchist](anarchism.md) culture by sustaining the politician's game ("go vote for X!", "I support this candidate!", ...), demonstrating evil through [humorwashing](humorwashing.md), also seeming to overestimate the quality of his [jokes](jokes.md) sometimes), [being fat](body_shaming.md) and more.
**Stallman also sucks** just like any other [human](people.md). Some of his sins include: being a [nationalist](nationalism.md) (puts a flag of his country on his website), having totalitarian tendencies (aiming for [GNU](gnu.md) to be the overseer of ethics, a "big brother") and supporting some kind of hierarchy in society, supporting [copyleft](copyleft.md) (perpetuating [copyright](copyright.md) and the "lawyer's game"), supporting [privacy](privacy.md) and other [censorship](censorship.md) as a [means to an end](ends_justify_the_means.md) (e.g. censoring software in repositories for merely not conforming to approved terminology), violating [free culture](free_culture.md) (adding sneaky "invariant sections" to otherwise free documents, making them unfree, also being sensitive/hostile to others incorporating his GNU "brand" without permission), partially being an [SJW](sjw.md) (inventing "gender neutral" pronouns etc.), supporting [hero](hero.md) culture (e.g. calling [Snowden](snowden.md) a "hero"), accepting [bloat](bloat.md), supporting [fight culture](fight_culture.md), practicing [egoism](egoism.md) (putting himself in center of attention by accepting the role of chief GNUisance, ruining [anarchist](anarchism.md) culture by sustaining the politician's game ("go vote for X!", "I support this candidate!", ...), demonstrating evil through [humorwashing](humorwashing.md), also seeming to overestimate the quality of his [jokes](jokes.md) sometimes), [being fat](body_shaming.md) (oh sorry, "horizontally challenged") and more.
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