Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:18:58PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Jeremy Nickurak <atrus@rifetech.com> writes:
>
> > The issue isn't whether we should keep racist material out of
> > debian. It's a matter of providing software without racist material
> > when people don't want racist material, joke or otherwise.
>
> Right now, I have no trouble: I don't use bitchx.
>
> If I wanted it, and the offensive joke were always "in my face", I
> would delete it.
>
> I might ask the developer to delete it.
>
> I might ITP a version of the package without, and "let the users
> decide".
>
> But I wouldn't try and armtwist the developer into doing the work for
> me that I should be happy to do myself.
For the record, a bit late:
- The thread is not about BitchX, but about irssi-scripts or so.
- After great urging, I've removed the messages I considered most
legitimately offensive from BitchX several weeks ago.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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