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Re: Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)



On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 03:23:24AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 03:15, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > 
> > This is bullshit.  This crap does not belong in the archive.  If you want to
> > do it, put it up on your own website and let people interested in it
> > participate, manage and use it.  Forcing this on the project is a disservice
> > to every volunteer and will amount to a colossal waste of time.
> 
> You're offended, I take it?  Such speech "does not belong" and should be
> censored?
> 
> *snicker*

You can say whatever you want to say, but don't expect Debian to be your
pulpit.  Debian is a *LINUX DISTRIBUTION*, not a vehicle for any person or
group of persons to spread their opinions on what might be offensive to them
or to some other person or group.  If you want to distribute that type of
information, you are more than welcome to use your own website, disk space
and bandwidth to do it.

What you are proposing will waste the time of volunteers, and that is
unacceptable.  A volunteer should spend his time maintaining his packages and
fixing bugs, not censoring upstream or responding to accusations of 
"objectionable material", lest his packages fall into some sort of blacklist 
maintained by christian-coalition types.

The bottom line is that if you or anyone else tries to put some sort of
censorware into Debian that is at all subjective, I will make sure that all
of my packages conflict with it, and I hope that others do the same.

--Adam

-- 
Adam McKenna  <adam@debian.org>  <adam@flounder.net>



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