Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
>>"Timothy" == Timothy R Butler <tbutler@uninetsolutions.com> writes:
Timothy> Hi,
>> Tom Sawyer?
Huckelberry Finn, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Moll Flanders, any book on
the glories of the wild wild west and the native savages, Gone with
the wind, Quentin Durward, Ivanhoe (anti-semitic), hakespeare (also
anti semitic, really -- pound of flesh and all), The Scarlet letter,
Scarlet Pimpernell (well, classist).
Timothy> Hmm... that wouldn't be on my list of controversial
Timothy> books. How about a better example. If I wanted to read Mein
Timothy> Kampf (sp?) by Adoph Hitler, do you think I could get that
Timothy> at my library? I certainly hope not.
I sure can. And I have read it too.
Timothy> I mean depending on how far one would take this, maybe we
Timothy> should enforce new rules to make sure every hateful document
Timothy> or program on the internet should be included to avoid
Timothy> censoring anyone. Obviously, I think at a point everyone
Timothy> will draw a line on what should be included. Otherwise you'd
Timothy> have one big mess.
The old testament has material about genocide in it. Think
about that.
manoj
free speech is not only about speech we like
--
Law of the Jungle: He who hesitates is lunch.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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