[OT] RE: Inappropriate content in Fedora Core 2

Simon admin at thelight.org.uk
Sat Aug 7 13:16:21 UTC 2004


Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> 
> If you think these type of people do not exist in your workplace, you
> are probably mistaken. There are people who will be genuinely offended
> by things like this (probably due to their own insecurities) and there
> will be people who are simply looking for a reason to get you into
> trouble. At any rate, under most laws in the states, the company is
> liable if they do not act upon such complaints, and so they will act,
> and harshly. And I don't think maintaining some joke put into a
> screensaver for the sake of sticking to the PC police is worth someone
> losing their job over. There are better battles to fight.
> 
> 

Whatever the reasons, even somewhat understandable from a financial 
point of view, this is still censorship, which is always a legitimate 
fight to have.
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