On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 18:06, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:58:45PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 20:26 +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote: > > > Hi again, > > > > > > perhaps to bring down the conversation to something more constructive, I > > > think we should base decision to have something or not in Debian: > > > 1. _NOT_ on personal belief (else we would probably end with nothing). > > > 2. _NOT_ on local laws (same comment). > > > > But we should be able to pass out Debian disks to children without > > fear of newspaper stories like "A young girl yesterday found > > pictures of naked women of a Linux computer disk" and be able to > > pass them around in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, etc without threat > > of the passer and the passee being beaten or thrown in jail by > > the Morality Police. > > Uh. If you live in a country where you could be thrown in jail because > someone gave you a CD-ROM containing almost 650MB worth of software of > which less than half a meg contains nudity cartoons, I think you have a > bigger problem than said nudity. I'm not aware of any law that says "if you give someone media that is only X% otherwise illegal to give to them, then it's not illegal", in any country. Is this actually the case somewhere in Europe? -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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