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Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png



On 31/12/15 03:10 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 31/12/15 06:15 AM, Fernando Arenas wrote:
First my sincere congratulations to the entire team that works every day to improve this wonderful operating system. The reason for writing to you is to have found in a package called openclipart2 clipsarts clearly sexist content in which women are presented as sex objects. So I ask you to withdraw these images and improve its protocols for such content is not put back into their servers. I hate that my children may find these images when they perform their work for the school. Only in Spain during 2015 male violence he has killed 62 women. Do not you contribute to promoting ideas about women favoring these behaviors.

greetings from
Fernando Arenas

https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/openclipart2-png/filelist
https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/openclipart2-png/filelist

I will note that the package is not available for Jessie or Stretch except as a download from Sid.I gather the package maintainer has a problem with it too. Perhaps the openclipart packages should be divided into categories which would allow for more targeted downloads. People looking for animal clipart, for example, may not want furniture clipart installed as well. This would allow for "sexy-female" and "sexy-male" packages that aren't installed except by explicit request.

My apologies for the above comment. Up until reading Fernando's post, I wasn't aware of openclipart2. I note that it is substantially larger than openclipart and is organized by contributor, not by topic. Following my suggestion would be hugely time consuming and achieve very little.

Looking at the images that were identified, I find little justification in the original complaint. One can easily accidentally stumble across far more provocative content on Facebook.


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