Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
You are kidding right? IRC is extremely inappropriate for a child to
use, period. You are way off base, your perspective is badly skewed
and I fear for the safety of your daughter online. I wish her the
best of luck with such poor guidance to grow with.
* Lazarus Long <lazarus@overdue.ddts.net> [020313 14:26]:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:47:25AM -0700, Adam Conrad wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Lazarus Long [mailto:lazarus@overdue.ddts.net]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:55 PM
> > >
> > > Yo family's so black, when they hold hands, it looks like a
> > > stretch limo.
> > >
> > > There's no excuse for racism in Debian.
> > >
> >
> > So, your take is that Debian should censor upstream so we can be more
> > politically correct? If you don't appreciate the author's off-colour
> > humour, then don't use his script(s).
> >
> > When Debian starts making decisions about what is and isn't appropriate
> > for our users to see, that's when I stop contributing. We should not be
> > about censorship.
> >
> > ... Adam Conrad
> >
> > (PS: Yo mama so white, when she gets naked, yo daddy's retinas burn
> > clean off)
>
> Again, there is no excuse for racism in Debian. Other packages have
> elided the inappropriate material in the past, as they should. An IRC
> client has no business being racist. Debian is a distribution that
> specifically caters to children; note the debian-junior project. As it
> stands, your package is inappropriate to be on the box my daughter uses.
>
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