On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:15:48PM +0400, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> I STRONGLY disagree with that new puritanism, that merely seems
> censorships. The so-called nazis citations we're just humorist citations
> ABOUT nazism, nothing more. While they are lots of really sexist
> citations in fortune that doesn't seem to shock anyone !
>
> Removing them unilateraly is nothing more as dictating what's good for
> user and what is not. If peoples are close-minded to be shocked by
> anything more explicit than TV soap-movies, there is an option in
> fortune to prevents offending citations from being randomly picked. Why
> not default it eventually ?
Well if you don't like it complaign to your government. They were the ones who
sued Yahoo because from France you could bid on Nazi "memoribilia", which even
included reali historical artifacts. I would imagine Mandrake doesn't want to
have to deal with getting sued by Germany for spreading Nazi literature.
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Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://ben.reser.org
"Heuristics are bug ridden by definition. If they didn't
have bugs, then they'd be algorithms."
