A better solution, IMHO, would be to take the apps displayed as Available for download from a white-list. This is not about ethical issues, porn or personal beliefs but only about Quality Assurance and design. Many apps currently displayed have ugly low-def icons, or have weird names, or are barely used by anyone. Currently, the choice of apps proposed look totally random, while on the Software Center, we do have a selection of Top Rated, featured apps. I guess that this would resolve the underlying issue because I don't picture Pornview getting featured.
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Jonathan Meek <shrouded.cl...@gmail.com>wrote: > This is a mailing list about Unity's design, please reign it in. > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad < > joerlend.schins...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 24. feb. 2012 02:20, cmaglothin wrote: >> >>> >>> He didn't say take them out of the market, I think he meant take them >>> out of the suggested apps in the lenses. Or at least make it where non-PG >>> apps are not placed in the suggestions of the lenses by default and have it >>> be opt out. >>> >>> >> I had never heard of PG before you mentioned it. I had to look it up on >> Wikipedia. It's a USA thing, right? Like Mark Twain, Tolkien, Dostojevski, >> etc? Too strong for the american public? >> >> I will tell you a few things about my perspective. I am under attack by >> everyone. 30% of the population really hates USA in public. Most hate them >> in private, but it's not considered politically correct to hate USA because >> of the Marshall plan, so most don't. 40% of the population hates the arabic >> world. Nobody hates Africa, of course. That would be politically incorrect. >> We are the world, aren't we? I was born in 1980, which makes me a factor. >> Nobody would ever want to mess with africa. That would kill any public >> persons name. China? Everyone hates them, except for the products, of >> course. They hate us and want to make us an new Cuba, but that works out >> fine, because the reason they hate us is our belief in free speech. >> >> USA is beginning to look like Iran from a Norwegian perspective. >> Unfortunately, the american fundamentalism is the least of our problems >> these days. The level of fundamentalism in a country that claims to be >> free, is staggering. You're punishing teachers for teaching the >> connotations of the word nigger. Have you gone insane? It would be like >> punishing a Norwegian teacher for teaching why nazism is bad. We don't do >> that yet, because we haven't reached the level of insanity that the USA >> has. We are certainly on our way, of course. We still have some pieces of >> democracy and the freedom of speech. >> >> Let me put it in your own language, that comes to me without any kind of >> involvement on my part. And you'll never find any kind of similar text on >> the internet with my signature on it, the point being that it's quite >> possible to know words without using them; >> >> Take your american bitch ass motherfucking for-death/pro-life hypocrisy >> and get the fuck out of my internet. And don't let the door hit your fat >> bigoted american ass on your motherfucking way out. >> >> Or otherwise, we might possibly get together and figure out how to make >> the peoples of the world agree with your views on what's appropriate and >> what's not. That would be a better solution, from my perspective. For >> instance, in Norway, it is perfectly legal for me as a man to go into a >> café with no shirt on, since I'm a man, but they're discussing whether or >> not it should be legal for women to cover their hair. Isn't that beautiful? >> What is your perspective on this with regards to the internet? But >> obviously, I would be wrong. We might for instance discuss whether or not >> Ubuntu should spread books that sell the notion of drinking human blood and >> eating their flesh as a way to become more valuable. But few americans >> would ever champion the idea that Ubuntu should forbid the bible. Would >> they? >> >> Norwegians who went to America and made a fortune, are promoted as >> heroes. Africans who come to Norway in order to make an honest buck, are >> considered criminals. Trust me when I tell you that I am deeply and >> personally offended by the fact that this is how the world works. I know >> the USA has the same concept with Mexicans. >> >> I understand the difficulties. But I reject the notion that sexuality >> should be the next victim of the righteous right to decide what's proper >> and what is not. If you want to protest, then protest the promotion of the >> bible or the qur'an or the tora. >> >> We could not possibly, under any circumstance, sensor naked humans for >> young people without requiring some sort of registration. If you don't like >> that, go make your own distro. In the meantime, perhaps parents should >> teach their own children what to do and what now to do. >> >> I apologize for my anger on this one, but it just couldn't be helped. >> >> >> -- >> Jo-Erlend Schinstad >> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~unity-**design<https://launchpad.net/%7Eunity-design> >> Post to : >> unity-design@lists.launchpad.**net<unity-design@lists.launchpad.net> >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~unity-**design<https://launchpad.net/%7Eunity-design> >> More help : >> https://help.launchpad.net/**ListHelp<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >> > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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