As Mikkel said, I agree that this could be a slippery slope, but I don't think it necessarily has to be. I think it would be possible to have some kind of classification system without slipping down the bottom of the slope to broad censorship. I think it just means that policy needs to be carefully and transparently thought out.
Maybe as a starting point, self classification could be tested. I suspect the authors of PornView would be willing to say that the app is an adult application. Then we could at the very least not have adult applications show up in the dash; i.e. you would have to open the USC to find them. And perhaps there could be a opt-in content control option which can be enable in the USC, which would be useful for setting up a machine for your kids, for example. Religious applications pose a more difficult problem, but wouldn't it be accepted by everyone that pornographic apps aren't something you want popping up while you are giving a presentation at work? I mean, you wouldn't do a Google image search at work with the safe search option off would you? I don't think you need to threaten the availability of any software by classifying it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/883800 Title: apps available to download section should blacklist certain items To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/883800/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
