On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:04:14PM +0000, Lazarus Long wrote: > 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 > 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. While I also deplore racism, if you're concerned about children being exposed to ideas and attitudes that you consider unacceptable, then a quote buried in an IRC script should be the /least/ of your concerns. In close to ten years on the Internet, I have *never* seen an IRC network to which I would apply the words "polite society", and the probability of being exposed to objectionable language and behavior coming from real IRC users is much higher than the risks from a simple kick script. If you're this worried about offensive speech, you should dpkg --purge all packages with 'irc' in the name, and block IRC at the firewall. End of story. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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