Greg 'groggy' Lehey <g...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 February 2013 at 11:45:40 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:39:38 am Dag-Erling SmXXrgrav wrote: > >> Author: des > >> Date: Tue Feb 5 14:39:37 2013 > >> New Revision: 246362 > >> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/246362 > >> > >> Log: > >> Remove political propaganda > >> > >> Modified: > >> head/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real > > > > *sigh* > > > > I'm sure there are other quotes that people who do not share your > > political persuasion might find propaganda or offensive, etc. > > Censorship and freedom of speech is quite a sticky widget, and I > > think the only truly sane policy is that fortune files are > > append-only (unless we outright remove them and that seems > > excessive). And new things should have a very high bar to be added > > to fortune. Perhaps we should move fortunes-o to ports entirely? > > Agreed, it shouldn't be up to individuals to decide which fortunes are > *too* offensive. In this case, I suspect that there's a distinct > difference between the perceptions of people inside and outside the > USA. I also find Limbaugh particularly hard to stomach, but I don't > think it should have been removed.
I'm somewhat amused that Limbaugh quotes are apparently considered too offensive for fortunes-o.real, while the Hitler quotes from games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes don't even qualify for fotunes-o. At least the first two aren't exactly pro-feminism either and I'm sure they could offend someone somewhere. > The real issue I see is that, for whatever reason, the Limbaugh > fortunes pop up far too frequently. It's as if the random number > generation is failing. Comments? Déjà vu: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-July/053125.html Fabian
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