Re: Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 05:01:29PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > Hmm. Censorship for the sake of freedom of expression. I see.
> >
> > Yeah, you already tried this argument. Sorry, but it doesn't hold water.
>
> I've yet to see a rebuttal (besides "nyah nyah, you stink, asshole").
Gee, that's a new one. Cut out the rebuttal and then claim you never saw it.
> > > It would seem that at least some people in the project only believe in
> > > freedom of *popular* speech. Hopefully, that's a minority.
> >
> > If you had made a proposal which was technical and objective, I would have no
> > problem with it. But it doesn't seem like you're interested in doing that,
> > (or maybe you just don't have a clue how it could be done).
>
> Yeah. I made the mistake of thinking out loud, engaging the community,
> and asking for feedback. I suppose you'd rather I just upload whatever
> comes to mind and deal with the fallout later.
You phrased your e-mail in the form of a proposal, not an off-the-cuff
e-mail asking for comments. As for feedback, you got plenty of that, so
mission accomplished.
--Adam
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Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org> <adam@flounder.net>
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