On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 22:57 +0100, jdd wrote:
Le 09/03/2010 22:05, Karsten König a écrit :
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...
The material which I quoted is unusually offensive and totally 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? -- N. B. Day 39° 28.3964' North, 119° 48.6346' West, 1403m up Aurelius up 3 days 4:37, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 Linux 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64) Gnome 2.28.2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org