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?
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. 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? Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger g...@freebsd.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua
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