On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:15:50PM +0200, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: Agreed. However having a policy that forbids _any_ humor that may be "offensive" to _anyone_ (as it happens with the current policy) to prevent a problem that never happened in the whole history of the event seems a bit excessive to me...
As previously mentioned, the primary idae is not to prevent a problem, but to allay any fears that such a problem might exist. They have occurred at other events. ...but maybe I am wrong, this is a complex topic. And that is the reason why it is important to talk and discuss about this instead of blindly adopting a policy that could work very well for US events (which according to the terrorific descriptions provided in this thread are like the Porkys camp) but not so well in an European background. You have a point about blind adoption of the policy. But it is certainly not a US centric one. A very similar one is used for FOSDEM and for events in Australia. -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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