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Unfortunately, that is not the case. Stallman is absolutely a defender of having sex with children.
Richard Stallman on paedophilia:
RMS on June 28th, 2003
RMS on 25th May, 2003
To be fair for that one, he doesn't specify whether 14 or under is fine for an adult to have sex with. It's certainly possible to interpret this as child-child relations only, but given his other comments where he says adult-child sex is fine, I decided to include this one.
RMS on June 5th, 2006
RMS on Jan 4th, 2013
I understand that Stallman has excellent views on liberty in software, and he's made enormous contributions to FOSS. But that does not necessarily mean he's a good person or that all of his views are good ones. People are flawed. IMO his views on the morality of having sex with children aren't good ones, but I recognise that I agree with him in other ways.
But per the quote in the meme above, you can't have willing participation, it is always coerced.
And you still don't provide sources.
I'd say the quotes above show he absolutely believes children are capable of consent. Why else would he use phrases like
"it's fine so long as nobody is coerced" (as if there are any situations where an adult can have sex with a child without there being coercion)
"willing participation in pedophilia" (children can't consent to sex!)
"the arguments [against having sex with children] seem to be based on cases that aren't voluntary" (None of them are voluntary! CHILDREN CANNOT CONSENT!)
He explicitly said it should be legal, and also alluded that parents are just prudish if they don't want their children to be having sex. It's very clear he supports it.
You'll be able to find this stuff in the articles that went around when he was pressured to resign from the FSF and from his role at MIT. It's primarily quotes from him on his own site, stallman.org.
Pre-blowback: fucking children is fine if they consent to it
Post-blowback: friends explained to me that it hurts the children and that they can't consent