Op zo, 05-12-2004 te 14:23 +0100, schreef Jonas Meurer:
> On 05/12/2004 James Foster wrote:
> > Pornography may be offensive to some. Is the package description for
> > hot-babe accurate? Are people who do not want it installed being
> > forced to install it?
> >
> > People who may be offended by the package should read its description
> > and make up their own mind about whether or not they would like to
> > install it.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > There's no excuse for censorship, ever.
>
> so you would even accept nazi propaganda material in debian, just
> because you dislike censorship?
Yes, for the very same reason that many public libraries across the
world contain the book 'Mein Kampf', by Adolf Hitler.
> did you ever think about the issue, that discriminating
> positions/POVs themselves are censoring, as they eliminate the thoughts
> of suppressed individuals?
It is discriminating to censor other people's thoughts, even if those
thoughts themselves are discriminating and advocate censorship.
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