Ron Johnson, on 2004-12-02, 02:35, you wrote: > Ok, let's look at case law:
Yeah, non-us take two, now! Since US law does not affect other countries (at least until now, thank God) let's put such stuff into non-us. This server (I'd be happy to sponsor hardware and bandwith) could then be blocked by this homeland security ministry thingy so that noone could be subject to offense by painted naked women (errm, what's wrong with that anyway?). On the other hand, we in Germany have very effective measures against distributing Debian CD to minors (although German kids do know how naked women look like): those 30 tetris games in Debian have not been evaluated for being suitable for minors. Should I mass-file bugs to remove all tetris games from Debian now? No, definitely not. Maybe we should add some more fields to our Packages files. Something like: Package: hot-babe German-Min-Age: 16 Suitable-For-US-Kids: no Offensive-For-$RELIGION: yes [...] Apt-get could then decide whether to install a package or not. "apt-get attorney" could advise users which packages are legally installable depending on their location, age, religion and their affiliation with Weight Watchers. Use Debian to promote free software. For anything else, talk to your representatives to create respective laws. Then decide, freedom or censorship? Telling your kids what's right and what's wrong or just hiding that what you believe is wrong from them? Let silly US laws affect the whole world? Joerg -- Joerg "joergland" Wendland | http://www.wendlandnet.de/joerg/ GPG: 51CF8417 FP: 79C0 7671 AFC7 315E 657A F318 57A3 7FBD 51CF 8417
