Re: Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)
On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 01:25, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Open censorship is definitely more despicable then furtive,
> closed door, apologetic censorship (though no censorship is the best
> of all worlds). The former glories in the act.
Interesting. The *principle* of "censorship" is so abhorrent that
anything that smacks of it must be discounted out of hand - even if that
thing might serve to prevent *actual* censorship.
As long as we cover it up, it's OK.
> Right now we have no institutional censorship: each maintainer
> exercises their own judgment on packages. Of course, in newspeak
> that is also censorship.
That's proof by ridicule. I don't buy it.
When a maintainer deletes lines out of a text file because those lines
offend "his own judgment", how is that not censorship?
Again, so it's clear: I don't necessarily have a problem with that. But
you claim to. (Though it's hard for me to actually figure out what you
believe, with all the contradictions.)
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