Re: Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)
>>"Jeff" == Jeff Licquia <licquia@debian.org> writes:
Jeff> On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 20:32, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> manoj
>> somewhat irritated: censorship, even collaborative censorship brings
>> out the retaliatory spirit in me
Jeff> ...since, as we all know, censorship should be done behind closed doors,
Jeff> not out in the open where people can question it. Not only is it more
Jeff> effective, it allows people to maintain a moral indignance in their
Jeff> ignorance, which is more important to some people than results.
Open censorship is definitely more despicable then furtive,
closed door, apologetic censorship (though no censorship is the best
of all worlds). The former glories in the act.
Right now we have no institutional censorship: each maintainer
exercises their own judgment on packages. Of course, in newspeak
that is also censorship.
manoj
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