On: Richard M. Stallman resigns

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The situation with Chomsky is not equivalent to this. Chomsky did not want Faurisson prosecuted by French law for his views. Chomsky did not himself express the bad views.

Stallman here was the one expressing the bad views, so he is Faurisson not Chomsky.

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Like Chomsky, Stallman did nothing illegal or immoral himself, just with his speech defended somebody who (potentially) did an illegal/immoral thing.

So if we consider "holocaust denial" to be the bad action (whether it is or not, that is for another discussion), then the analogy holds.