@ianmacd I think the crucial point in such cases is that whether these allegations are supported by objective facts or merely from someone's unfalsifiable account. The problem with cancel culture is that If all that matters are someone's lived experiences or someone's perceived feelings of offense that can be claimed by anyone, yet are unable to be proven by evidence, then anyone can be criminalized. I think we should assume one's innocence until he's proven guilty , instead of criminalizing everyone for the possible harm he might have done until he's proven innocent.
Moreover, even the allegations made against him, in this case Richard Stallman are true (e.g. leering at a woman's chest, asking a woman for a dinner by saying he'd kill him self if he was refused), I don't think they would be sufficient reasons to "remove" him from his job and his membership from FSF, for he didn't use his power and position to force anyone to have dinner with him or force them to show their chest in front of him.(prove me if I'm wrong)
What I do sense in the attempt to cancel him is a tendency towards authoritarianism, that is, if someone makes you uncomfortable, hurts your feelings, then even if they didn't cause harms that are obvious to all, you should have the power to remove him, deplatfom him, make him lose the job. Given what's been done by identity politics and woke movements, and given that the foucauldian idea underlying much of the broad Critical Social Justice movement, that all that matters is power. It's doubtful whether this is a sincere effort to improve the condition of Free software, or simply another attempt to infect yet another field with their woke politics, to capture Foss communities in the same way they took over the Campus, the Media, and organizations such as the ACLU.