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He also displays a level of denial about the whole situation that I don't think he's ever really got over, and in his own autist way tried to rationalise into "they appeared willing, so they must have been willing, so no crime was committed". He recanted that whole thing pretty much entirely later on, after learning that people can in fact lie about being abused.Even Stallman in his own emails says he doesn't agree with what Epstein did.
Also, as an aside, I hate this whole "there have been accusations for years" line, because it conflates a bunch of very different things together to create the impression of a continuous stream of accusations of sexual deviance. It's true that there have been "accusations" against Stallman for years, but most of those "accusations" are things like "he had a pleasure card because it's a le funny joke about business cards, and ate toe cheese in public". The "he's a paedophile and abuses women" thing only developed within the last few years, based on misunderstandings and innuendos that went right over his autistic head.