Re: Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)
>>"Jeff" == Jeff Licquia <licquia@debian.org> writes:
Jeff> On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 17:09, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>
>> You are assuming there is a common cultural background that
>> shall determine what the broad community finds offensive.
>> Unfortunately, with the spread of the internet, Debian is no longer a
>> localized mostly european heritage distribution. We hae
>> constituencies that find things offensive that you may hold dear, and
>> vice versa.
Jeff> There are some things that can be classified as universally
Jeff> abhorrent. Advocating the murder of innocents would hold up
Jeff> anywhere, I would imagine.
So i guess the bible, with the genocide of the people of
Caanan, is out. More to the point, software and ideas about
genocide, and past practices of the same, are critical to education
of the next generation.
We are talking ideas and software her.
Jeff> I'm not looking for a package that will make Jerry Falwell happy. I'm
Jeff> looking for something that will allow people to weed out the most
Jeff> egregious stuff, like the famous BitchX taglines.
There is no distinction. You are proposing that you do not
want one persons opinion (based closely on a consensus opinion of a
segment of US population), and yet you substitute another majority
opinion as the basis for this censorship. Same difference.
Jeff> No; the only things that are *noteworthy* in their offensiveness are
Jeff> determined by majority vote. You are free to be offended by anything
Jeff> else you find on the system without asking the Project's approval.
And thus begins the slide.
>> You are free to do as you please, of course, but I would
>> object to any GR that tries to implement this censorship by majority.
Jeff> I think that the point here is that we're avoiding censorship by
Jeff> providing a way for people to evaluate what they want on their own.
No, you are not: You are taking upon yourself to tell people
what is not good, for the sake of the children. People do not need
this package to make their own evaluations.
manoj
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