Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:32 +0000, Tim Cutts wrote:
>> On 30 Nov 2004, at 8:08 am, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
>>
>> > However, pornography causes significant legal problems in the US, and
>> > probably moreso in many other countries. If I give a Debian CD
>> > containing this software to a minor, am I distributing pornography? (It
>> > sure looks like it, from the pictures.) This is considered a felony in
>> > most parts of the US. Given the contributions made by people under 18
>> > and/or 21 to Debian, this seems to cause a major technical and legal
>> > problem, regardless of any ethical one.
>> >
>> > I would ask, for this reason, that the software not be included in
>> > Debian main.
>>
>> I think this is a strong argument. But it probably also applies to
>> things like the bible. There are countries in the world where
>> distributing the bible is illegal. It is presumably therefore also
>> illegal to distribute Debian in those countries.
>>
>> If there's going to be a policy of this sort it should be consistent.
>
> Put such possibly controversial matter in contrib? Is contrib
> on disk 1? If not, then at least disk 1 would be legal anywhere.
>
> Should this be moved to debian-legal?
In germany games must be rated for distribution to minors. Anything
that didn't pay and get itself rated is automatically 18+.
So please (NO DONT, irony) remove all games (like tetris, very
dangerous to minors) from debian main since they make distributing
Debian to minors illegal.
MfG
Goswin
PS: The bible is probably one of the books to be kicked out first if
you start censoring. There is a bit of everything in there. Satanic
worshipping, sex, (mass) murder, animal cruelty, biological warfare
(or what is sending a swarm of locusts?),....
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