Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:34:18PM -0700, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
> The issue isn't whether we should keep racist material out of debian. It's a matter of providing software without racist material when people don't want racist material, joke or otherwise. Right now, there is no way to install bitchx without getting these messages. Contrast with fortunes, where a seperate "offensive" fortunes package has to be installed if you want it.
> Having racist jokes turned on "by default" reflects badly on debian, its developers, and its users.
If anyone cares enough about this, they are free to do something about it.
They could provide alternatives to packages that contain things that they
find offensive, they could provide a separate archive which doesn't
provide the "offensive" packages, they could provide metapackages that
conflict with all the "offensive" packages...
The list goes on.
As far as reflecting badly on the developers is concerned, I guess that
depends on your viewpoint. Most people^Wdevelopers responding to this so
far have been against any kind of forced censorship. If you or anybody else
feel that this reflects badly on them, I guess they're happy with that.
Cheers,
Nick
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Nick Phillips -- nwp@lemon-computing.com
You are sick, twisted and perverted. I like that in a person.
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