Oh wow, did we just ban a mirror because of its joke domain? That's
10/10 professionalism indeed.

On 西元2017年07月25日 14:53, Philip Stark wrote:
> Hi Midov, Alucard,
>
>> On 25 Jul 2017, at 08:11, Midov <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Dear Florian Pritz,
> <snip>
>>> What does it take to remove all forms of free speech, before it
>>> doesn't
>>> matter to anyone at all?
>>>
> This is not about free speech. 
>
> As far as I understand, you are free to host Arch Linux material on your 
> server under whatever domain you feel like. That is as far as free speech 
> goes. The decision by the Arch Linux project (through Florian) was to stop 
> listing your server, which would imply a certain affiliation. That is not 
> about free speech, it’s a decision by a non-governmental entity. They have 
> the right (legally and ethically, imho) to decide whom to affiliate with, 
> irrelevant of the reason.
>
> This is a move that was borne from a concern for the reputation of the 
> project. You seem to value “teh lulz” high, which is your right. Florian 
> valued the reputation of the project higher than your right to have a goofily 
> named mirror on the official list. I agree. And I’m not sure why that is such 
> a problem.
>
> <snip>
>>> Could you keep a list of alternative domains not deemed safe for
>>> work, but
>>> still mirrors for Arch?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Imagine if others were to host Arch, let's say on an OpenNic domain,
>>> or an
>>> onion address, would those get deemed Not Safe Work too? 
>>> Maybe I'll register CIAloves2.divideandconqu.er to make it more
>>> palatable.
>>>
> How edgy...
>
>> I for one would download all my shit from cute loli mirror.
>> Triggered feminists have no place on the free internet, let them go
>> back to their censored safe spaces.
>> Thanks for your attention.
> Then go on, add this mirror to your config. Nobody asks you or them not to 
> use this domain. 
>
> This is not about feminism, free speech or safe spaces. This is about 
> protecting the reputation of a project trying to project a certain amount of 
> professionalism. And to be honest, I feel a little tired of these discussions 
> trying to use free speech as a shield to waste everyone’s time just because 
> they feel their little jokes deserve wide-spread attention.
>
>
> TL;DR: A non-governmental project has every right to associate with whatever 
> entities they want. Florian felt that loli.forsale is a domain that does not 
> represent the professionalism they would like to portray. Thus it was 
> removed. 
>
> I will answer replies, but I will no longer post about this topic to this 
> list, as I feel it would be spam.
>
> Cheers,
> Philip Stark

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