This is literally exactly what I'm talking about. "oh he's just an autist who can't keep his mouth shut." That's giving him a pass.

From later in his Wikipedia entry:

In September 2006, Stallman had written, "I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily [sic] pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing." On September 14, 2019, Stallman acknowledged that since the time of his past writings, he had learned that there were problems with underage sex, writing on his blog: "Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that."

No, no, just NO. This is not something that you have to learn as a fucking fifty-three year old which is how old he fucking was when he said it was harmless. He had to be convinced otherwise by other people when he was over sixty. He had these beliefs the majority of his life.

Saying pedophilia is fine when you're 53 isn't because you're autistic or can't keep your mouth shut, it's because you believe reprehensible shit! That you had to be talked fucking down from by reasonable fucking people who shouldn't have had to have wasted their fucking time doing so!

Please stop giving him a pass, it's just fucking excuses at this point. Christ. This is why everyone bailed on the FSF when he returned, because it's disrespectful to reasonable and decent human beings who don't hide behind things like "autism" to defend being creepy fucking assholes.