Re: Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)
On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 04:37, Adam McKenna wrote:
>
> You can say whatever you want to say, but don't expect Debian to be your
> pulpit. Debian is a *LINUX DISTRIBUTION*, not a vehicle for any person or
> group of persons to spread their opinions on what might be offensive to them
> or to some other person or group. If you want to distribute that type of
> information, you are more than welcome to use your own website, disk space
> and bandwidth to do it.
>
> What you are proposing will waste the time of volunteers, and that is
> unacceptable. A volunteer should spend his time maintaining his packages and
> fixing bugs, not censoring upstream or responding to accusations of
> "objectionable material", lest his packages fall into some sort of blacklist
> maintained by christian-coalition types.
Censoring upstream already happens. Responding to accusations of
objectionable material already happens. Or haven't you been paying
attention?
Had you read the proposal, you'd know that I'm trying to reduce the
amount of censorship going on.
> The bottom line is that if you or anyone else tries to put some sort of
> censorware into Debian that is at all subjective, I will make sure that all
> of my packages conflict with it, and I hope that others do the same.
Hmm. Censorship for the sake of freedom of expression. I see.
It would seem that at least some people in the project only believe in
freedom of *popular* speech. Hopefully, that's a minority.
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