On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 09:31:46PM +0000, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I was recently at the UN forum on business and human rights, listening > to an Iranian dissident talk[1] about the extremes that his country goes > to in censoring and silencing people who don't agree with their rulers. > I would encourage people to watch the video. > > At that very same moment, the anti-harassment team were censoring[2] a > Debian Developer's blog from Planet Debian. Chilling. [...] > Looking at Debian's code of conduct[9], there is no compelling violation > of the code in Norbert's writing. Indeed, the only violation of the > code of conduct may be the act of censorship itself: the very first > point tells us "inevitably there will be people with whom you may > disagree, or find it difficult to cooperate. Accept that, but even so, > remain respectful." [...] > Even without contemplating the code of conduct, censorship has a > sinister effect on discussion.
I agree with you wholeheartly. Censorship is at the root, or very close to the roots, of pretty much any violation of freedom I can think of. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Ivan was a worldly man: born in St. Petersburg, raised in ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Petrograd, lived most of his life in Leningrad, then returned ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ to the city of his birth to die.
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