Re: Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 04:12, mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 04:41:34PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > If you do that then you are catering to the lowest common denominator --
> > the Lazarus Longs of the world, and not to the intelligent users who we
> > want to have using our distro.
>
> Heh, everytime I see "Lazarus Long" I cannot help thinking of the Robert
> Heinlein character. I'm sure he wouldn't approve of any censorware;
> it would catch all of his books ;)
Depends on the criteria. If you filter on incest, sex acts involving 12yo
children, orgies, or drugs then RAH's books would get hit hard.
If you filter on homosexuality then it'll be fine as it appears that RAH
didn't approve of that sort of thing. It's notable that the only sex acts
not condoned in RAH's books are rape, bestiality, and homosexuality.
> I wonder if it's really this guy's name.
Of course not.
> Nonetheless, last time I checked, Debian does not discriminate based on
> our users' intelligence. If users want this software, then it is our duty
> to cater to this.
We are not required to do stupid things to cater for stupid people. For
example we don't include software that produces security holes no matter how
badly the stupid users may want it.
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