I think it's perfectly reasonable for janitors to omit sections of
comments that they may be concerned are not be suitable to the community
news audience. The original comment is still available on the website,
and interested parties can see it there.
Since the definition of what requires a "parental advisory" is relative,
I'm more than happy to leave it to the discretion of the janitor reading
the comment, as long as they mention that they're making an omission.
If the commenter is concerned that listeners are not getting their full
message, they are more than welcome to record their comment in full and
submit it as an episode.
- Windigo
On 2025-07-04 12:19, Ken Fallon via Hpr wrote:
Hi All,
For a normal show, we expect hosts to mark shows that may be sensitive
in nature to include a "Parental Advisory" as described in "hpr2210 ::
On Freedom of Speech and Censorship"
https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr2210/index.html. See "hpr1309 ::
Assisted Human Reproduction"
https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1309/index.html for an example.
Nothing offensive is in the notes, or summaries but the show includes
sufficient warning to give Parents, Guardians and people likely to be
triggered by the topic, time to turn it off.
During the last months community news recording, I felt the words [mass
maceration / mass suffocation / mass gassing] are not appropriate for
reading out in the Community News, and so limited my comment to the
giving the spirit of the "the fate of male chicks in the egg industry
is horrific".
The commenter has objected and feels that I should have read out the
comments. Therefore I am putting the decision to the community.
Does the policy allow for the Janitors to skip sections of the comments
while reading the Community News ?
The policy reads:
https://hackerpublicradio.org/about.html#not_moderated states
"The audio of your show will not be moderated." ... We do not vet,
edit, moderate or in any way censor any of the audio you submit, we
trust you to do that. ...Please note that this only relates to the
audio you upload. The rest of the meta-data, are managed by the HPR
Community, and may be edited."
My view is that the Community News is a welcoming show, where new hosts
come to get feedback on their episode, and for many who use it to
decide which shows to download. The spirit of the comment was conveyed,
and reading it verbatim would have required wrapping the episode in a
"Parental Advisory", reducing it's download appeal, and as such the
community as a whole would suffer.
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