Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
>>"Warren" == Warren Stramiello <warren@stramiello.net> writes:
Warren> *Does* the library have the right to censor books it finds
Warren> filthy or inappropriate? I was under the impression they do
Warren> indeed have that power... at the very least, I don't recall
Warren> the last time the library near me carried the latest issue of
Warren> penthouse...
Hmm. Public libraries _do_ have to pander to the4 first
amendment, down where _I_ live.
Warren> Trying to stir up passions by comparing snipping racist
Warren> remarks from source to the image of a torch-waving book
Warren> burning (and the implicit link to nazism) doesn't strike me
Warren> as a good analogy... the request that the racist material be
Warren> snipped, or that it be shot off into a -offensive package (a
Warren> la fortune) is several steps removed from demanding that the
Warren> author's package be srm'd, following by the shredding of any
Warren> drive platters it's touched...
Ok. I find all vi packages to be an offense to my
sensibilities. I also find the bible, the display-dhamapada, and any
packages with a reference to beef offensivce. I find references to
Jesus, Vishnu, and Mohammed offensive (please feel free to add icons
of other religions I may have missed).
I also find python offensive. I am not sure about ruby yet.
Warren> I may be way off base, but I think it's fair to file a bug
Warren> request pointing out the offensive nature of the racist
Warren> material in the package, asking that it be considered for
Warren> splitting into -normal and -offensive... what the maintainer
Warren> chooses to do is his own decision, though, and I don't think
Warren> anything short of a resolution of some sort could force the
Warren> change upon it (but I would have to look up the rules before
Warren> I say for certain what can and cannot be forced).
Heh. Please prepare for a mass bug filing, then.
manoj
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