Philosophy class homework: Does an activist organization require authoritarianism to protect itself from infiltration and to preserve its integrity and its values?
Illustrate your work with examples of activist organizations, showing the impact of their governance structure on its integrity.
@civodul they're also conflating two unrelated issues in that (super weird) "announcement": (1) the fact that supporter-elected boards are more prone to hostile takeovers than self-perpetuating boards (which is true as a general proposition), and (2) the FSF baroque voting/board members split, which does not protect against anything at all and is currently helping rms to stay in power. Total non sequitur.
@zacchiro So you're arguing that the way the organization is structured is more important than its goals?
You claim (with quite much fluff ..) that how the structure of the FSF doesn't "protect against anything at all" .. for an organization that has been under constant attack by adversaries and allies for 40 years ... seems to have worked out quite well .. this sounds more like a personal vendetta than anything else...