Inappropriate content in Fedora Core 2

Simon admin at thelight.org.uk
Fri Aug 6 22:48:55 UTC 2004


Keith Hunt wrote:

> On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:53:11 +0100, Rui Miguel Seabra <rms at 1407.org> wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 07:37 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
>>
>>>2) Moral Harassment, as Rui defines it, is not harassment under the law
>>>in the US. We do not have the right to act indecently in situations
>>>where it imposes on the rights of others to not view our acts. Put
>>>another way, what you do in your bedroom is pretty much your business,
>>>but you don't have the right to do "your business" where others would
>>>have no choice but to watch you.
>>
>>When the morals or definitions of indecency of others are imposed on me,
>>they're morally harassing me. I don't care that the law doesn't cover it
>>_yet_. I an only hope it does one day.
>>
>>
>>>4) Free speech does *not* protect you from the willful display of
>>>inappropriate conduct in the workplace - by anyone's definition of
>>>inappropriate.
>>
>>Conduct is not speech. But including perfectly normal words on speech
>>is, no matter what people like or not. And it is protected everywhere in
>>the USA, even while wearing a t-shirt reading: Fuck This Court while on
>>trial.
>>
>>
>>>===============================
>>>"Our lives begin to end the day we
>>>become silent about things that matter."
>>
>>hmms...
>>
>>
>>>-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
>>+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
>>| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
>>+ So let's do it...?
>>
>>Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments.
>>See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Get off your soapbox and have some consideration for the sensibilities
> of others.  These images are not about free speech, they are just
> juvenile.  Sneaking these into a screensaver as a joke reminds me of
> something a twelve-year old would snicker about.  Beavis and Butthead
> material.
> 
> Home vs work is not the issue either -- don't any of you folks have
> children?  I'm supposed to sit there for an hour and watch each
> morphing screensaver image to ensure there is nothing I don't want my
> young daughter (or son) to see?  Sure, I can just use a blank screen
> -- now that I know.  It just never occurred to me that I would need to
> be on the lookout for this.
> 
jeez its only a penis, who cares if they see it, they will either have 
one of there own to see everyday, or learn about in biology class, its 
hardly going to damage them for life.
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