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Date:      Mon, 24 Oct 2016 10:40:29 +0200
From:      Greg Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: misc/jive deleted
Message-ID:  <20161024084029.GD49429@v1.leiden.byshenk.net>
In-Reply-To: <841331bc-f2b7-0076-784b-6b52465a65ca@toco-domains.de>
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 09:54:56AM +0200, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:
> On 24.10.2016 09:16, Greg Byshenk wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 01:05:52AM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> >
> >> "Common decency" is disputable even in within USA; Europe is less
> >> infested with USA style prissy "political correctness", & other
> >> places less than Europe.  Censorship of Global FreeBSD to USA norms
> >> is Offensive.
> >
> > Point of information: I can't speak knowledgeably about the
> > rest of the world, but Europe tends to have -more- stringent
> > restrictions on abusive speech than does the USA.
> 
> Just at a side note - this statement is far to general. It depends very 
> heavenly on the country. There are around 50 different countries in 
> Europe which differs quite a lot - some have more restrictions and some 
> less than the USA. Its quite surprising.

Yes, it is overly general, but it was in response to an 
equally overly-general statement. To my knowledge, it also
is -generally- (though not univerally) true. (And, of course,
the nature of such restrictions is highly variable from one
state to another.) 

-- 
greg byshenk  -  gbyshenk@byshenk.net  -  Leiden, NL



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