Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 11:53:47 +0100 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dag-Erling =?UTF-8?B?U23DuHJncmF2?= <des@des.no>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r246362 - head/games/fortune/datfiles Message-ID: <20130206115347.00720818@fabiankeil.de> In-Reply-To: <20130206021818.GB2899@eureka.lemis.com> References: <201302051439.r15EdcE7011203@svn.freebsd.org> <201302051145.40104.jhb@freebsd.org> <20130206021818.GB2899@eureka.lemis.com>
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--Sig_/M15pQTEgYfLA4C7=CXfzTb8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 February 2013 at 11:45:40 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > 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? >=20 > Agreed, it shouldn't be up to individuals to decide which fortunes are > *too* offensive. In this case, I suspect that there's a distinct > difference between the perceptions of people inside and outside the > USA. I also find Limbaugh particularly hard to stomach, but I don't > think it should have been removed. I'm somewhat amused that Limbaugh quotes are apparently considered too offensive for fortunes-o.real, while the Hitler quotes from games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes don't even qualify for fotunes-o. At least the first two aren't exactly pro-feminism either and I'm sure they could offend someone somewhere. > The real issue I see is that, for whatever reason, the Limbaugh > fortunes pop up far too frequently. It's as if the random number > generation is failing. Comments? D=C3=A9j=C3=A0 vu: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-July/053125.html Fabian --Sig_/M15pQTEgYfLA4C7=CXfzTb8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlESNloACgkQBYqIVf93VJ3u4QCff5jcmMo/Agxn+Xzo5YKtjh8C IW8An1lG61NEvs7pqjs/cbfQj9bCLL5f =niRb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/M15pQTEgYfLA4C7=CXfzTb8--
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