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Re: [opensuse-project] Do the openSUSE guiding principles mean what they say?
- From: N B Day <nbday@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:09:43 -0800
- Message-id: <1268179783.18896.100.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 22:57 +0100, jdd wrote:
irrelevant to the purpose of the list. The person is perfectly entitled
to his opinion, and I'm sure he can find many places to air it which are
not opensuse-en.
The list is about technical topics related to openSUSE, not about
religion, culture or politics. This isn't really a free speech issue,
since there are all sorts of speech not permitted on a technical, single
purpose list: it is rather one of not being forced to read offensive and
irrelevant garbage in a place in which one does not expect to encounter
it.
It would be a simple fix to prohibit non-germane statements on political
religious or cultural topics which are likely to give offense and which
are posted with the *sole purpose* of doing so, having nothing to do
with technical issues of openSUSE, as is manifestly the case here.
If this can't be done then the Guiding Principles are an empty statement
and I'm out of here.
Another little gedenken: suppose someone decided to post Mein Kampf
paragraph-by-paragraph in opensuse-en as tag lines, in otherwise
unobjectionable messages similar to the one I'm objecting to. Would
this be permitted?
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Le 09/03/2010 22:05, Karsten König a écrit :The material which I quoted is unusually offensive and totally
I agree the quote is offensive towards muslims and should not be used on
this
open list, but action should be chosen wisely, so cracking down on opinions
will not lead to a closed list where people feel they can't express their
opinion.
+1
censorship is very difficult to do, even when most people agree. This
is the drawback of open lists (not moderated).
I would prefere not to remove those mails, if not too frequent. And
please, trim the anwsers not to spread even more the offending text...
irrelevant to the purpose of the list. The person is perfectly entitled
to his opinion, and I'm sure he can find many places to air it which are
not opensuse-en.
The list is about technical topics related to openSUSE, not about
religion, culture or politics. This isn't really a free speech issue,
since there are all sorts of speech not permitted on a technical, single
purpose list: it is rather one of not being forced to read offensive and
irrelevant garbage in a place in which one does not expect to encounter
it.
It would be a simple fix to prohibit non-germane statements on political
religious or cultural topics which are likely to give offense and which
are posted with the *sole purpose* of doing so, having nothing to do
with technical issues of openSUSE, as is manifestly the case here.
If this can't be done then the Guiding Principles are an empty statement
and I'm out of here.
Another little gedenken: suppose someone decided to post Mein Kampf
paragraph-by-paragraph in opensuse-en as tag lines, in otherwise
unobjectionable messages similar to the one I'm objecting to. Would
this be permitted?
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