Re: Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 10:19, Russell Coker wrote:
> If we had a rating system so specific as to discriminate between the types of
> content I described above then it would be a huge check-list.
Very true. But it's not clear that we would need to be so specific.
Knowing what I know about people who care about such things, I'd suspect
that categories of "nudity", "partial nudity", and "swimsuit/lingerie"
would probably be sufficient. "underage" might be an additional
modifier, though that comes pretty close to "kiddie" which is already
illegal.
> But I can see one useful advantage of your scheme, people who are searching
> for material that is deprecated because it offends some feeble-minded people
> will have a good list to choose from! ;)
Heh. True enough. Like the people who crack censorware just to get the
good list of porn sites.
There is a serious side to this, though. Imagine categories of
"religion:christian" and "religion:subgenius", for example. People of
an atheistic turn can remove the former, while people with a sense of
humor can install the latter. People running government-owned computers
that have to worry about appearing to sponsor religion can block the
entire "religion" category.
The list doesn't have to all be about smut, you know.
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