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Date:      Tue, 5 Feb 2013 11:45:40 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        "Dag-Erling SmXXrgrav" <des@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r246362 - head/games/fortune/datfiles
Message-ID:  <201302051145.40104.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201302051439.r15EdcE7011203@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201302051439.r15EdcE7011203@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:39:38 am Dag-Erling SmXXrgrav wrote:
> Author: des
> Date: Tue Feb  5 14:39:37 2013
> New Revision: 246362
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/246362
> 
> Log:
>   Remove political propaganda
> 
> Modified:
>   head/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real

*sigh*

I'm sure there are other quotes that people who do not share your political 
persuasion might find propaganda or offensive, etc.  Censorship and freedom
of speech is quite a sticky widget, and I think the only truly sane policy
is that fortune files are append-only (unless we outright remove them and
that seems excessive).  And new things should have a very high bar to be
added to fortune.  Perhaps we should move fortunes-o to ports entirely?

-- 
John Baldwin



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