Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
> Similar to what another poster said, the day Debian starts censoring is the
> day I stop advocating Debian as a distro.
I question whether it is censorship to remove and/or seperate racist
material from acceptable things. If someone started to include X-rated
pictures in Debian, does that mean you would argue their right to do so
because Debian shouldn't censor?
There is a difference between basic QA and censorship, IMO. On the one hand
Quality Assurance/Control can filter out stuff that is pure trash and of
absolutely no value. On the other hand, censorship would be filtering out
something that may be of value but someone deems they don't want. What value
does this so-called "joke" provide?
IMO, people are too worried about censorship when they admit they find
something very offensive, but still think it shold be included in a Software
Package. Can you see the field day MS would have if they could download a few
Debian packages and say "See? All this Linux nuts are a bunch of racists!"
Would it be true? No. Would it appear that way to non-Linux users? Quite
possibly.
-Tim
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