Re: Censorship in Debian
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 02:14:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> writes:
>
> > I was recently at the UN forum on business and human rights, listening
> > to an Iranian dissident talk[1] about the extremes that his country goes
> > to in censoring and silencing people who don't agree with their rulers.
> > I would encourage people to watch the video.
>
> > At that very same moment, the anti-harassment team were censoring[2] a
> > Debian Developer's blog from Planet Debian. Chilling.
>
> > I actually looked at Planet shortly after attending that panel
> > discussion and immediately noticed that Norbert Preining[3] had been
> > censored. Disappearances of Khashoggi[4] and Kamphuis[5] came to mind.
>
> Entirely apart from the merits of the rest of your discussion of whether
> the project should republish this blog using project resources, this
> framing is appalling and blatantly dishonest. It intentionally conflates
> issues of government censorship and journalistic freedom that have cost
> people their lives with a dispute over whether Debian should *republish*
> content that has not been censored, restricted, or removed in any way, let
> alone been subject to threats of physical violence.
>
> I object in the strongest possible terms to this framing of your argument.
> You should be profoundly ashamed for choosing this path of malicious
> exaggeration phrased as an attack on the work of fellow developers. It
> was completely unbecoming of a Debian project member.
Thank you for illustrating so well why Daniel's words were spot on. Your
response is exactly why censorship must not be tolerated in Debian.
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