Thomas Bushnell has written thoughtfully on this:
https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-departure-of-rms-18e6a835fd84

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:56 AM Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
Richard Stallman, known colloquially as 'RMS', has resigned from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Free Software Foundation, after making comments defending Jeffrey Epstein, the late sexual predator. Those comments sparked wide-spread outrage across the MIT community and beyond.


        - Dan C.