Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 22:02, Chris wrote:
> The key concern is whose relative agenda a determination of 'racism'
> or 'racist' fits for the day. Anyone so naive that they cannot handle
> an offcolor statement that is so innocuous has no business being
> online, they will simply have a stroke and die.
True, but irrelevant to the point at hand.
(I agree that they *should*, but I think arguing over whether they
should or should not be online is a digression from whether or not to
filter or mark or some such to racist material).
> Fwiw, I don't use those quit messages because I think they are lowbrow
> so I whip out vim and fix it. But I would never whine about them, who
> cares, they are only words. Don't like them, edit them. For that
> matter how can you be so concerned over that remark and use a client
> called BitchX to begin with. Classic.
>
The point is, for offensive fortunes, we have an extra package... why
not the same for offensive bitchx stuff?
> Maybe we need to change the app name to jesus_chat.
Interesting... you could have it slay the user's processes if the user
ever joined #skeptics.
~Warren
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