Re: Let's CENSOR it! (was: Uploaded anarchism 7.5-1 (source all) to master)
So I agree with the guy who said we should have an "etexts" section, with
things priority "optional".
Jonathan
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 06:37:23AM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Jens Lisner wrote:
> > > distribution. At least some texts have to be commented. Or do you want
> > > "Mein Kampf" in your distribution?
> >
> > Yes, I would like Mein Kampf in our distribution. While not agreeing with
> > it, I feel its important for people to be able to see for themselves this
> > document that had a huge historical impact. Do you know its censored here in
> > Canada? We Canadians can't even read it and decide for ourselves. I say no
> > to censorship.
> >
> > If you don't know what led up to the mistakes of the past, how can you learn
> > from them?
>
> This isn't about censorship, this is about Debian being a software
> distribution. As for the bible arguments, it is distributed as an add-on
> (iirc) for fortune which makes it work with a system related program. The
> anarchist package is nothing more than an html mirror.
>
> If we don't draw a line, we will have OCR fanatics scanning in all kinds
> of material and packaging the entire library.
>
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