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Re: Question regarding 'offensive' material



On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 07:19:21PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> On 17/06/2005 Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 04:25:43PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> > > On 15/06/2005 Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately people that are easily offended will always exist, even by
> > > > simple human body parts displayed in a very abstract manner (more abstract
> > > > than the pictures in any sexual education book). So we have to do
> > > > something about it, because it's a given. I was thinking that maybe
> > > > debtags would provide a solution. You can invent a tag "contains remote
> > > > references to natural reproduction" and anyone can use that to filter out
> > > > unwanted packages.
> > > 
> > > the problem is, that most of these sexual pictures or whatsoever are
> > > created and even provided because they're offending. maybe not to offend
> > > somebody directly, but rather because offending material is that popular.
> > 
> > That's simply another way to say that "the group of people who are
> > offended is a minority".
> 
> even if the group where the material is popular is a minority itself?

I think you'll find that porn is the majority industry on the internet.

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