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Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU and sex
Message-ID: <1034@rpics.RPI.EDU>
Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 09:42:24 EST
Article-I.D.: rpics.1034
Posted: Wed Mar 25 09:42:24 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Mar-87 01:30:38 EST
References: <1028@rpics.RPI.EDU> <1049@h.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: RPI Computer Science Dept.
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Keywords: emacs sex
Summary: I didn't mean censorship is good...

In article <1049@h.cs.cmu.edu>, rfb@h.cs.cmu.edu (Rick Busdiecker) writes:
> Rape is *very* bad.  Child molestation is *very* bad.  Censorship is much,
> much worse than either.  Its range of its effects is much larger, both in
> terms of the number of people which it affects and in terms of the length of
> time over which it has an effect.

	I agree, and perhaps (well, not perhaps - obviously) I didn't
say what I meant.  I didn't mean "get off your cesorship is bad high
horses" to mean that censorship isn't bad, I meant it to mean that
what we're talking about here isn't censorship.  How is not including
patheticly adolescant (my opinion, sure) jokes in a *EMACS*
distribution - a *SOFTWARE* distribution - censorship?  I'm not
advocating that the authors of these jokes not be allowed to freely
distribute them to people who want to see them, but I just don't think
they have ANY place with serious software, especially since it seems
to offend a numer of people.  Post them to net.jokes, form a
net.jokes.sex group (there may already be one).  When you buy a porno
magazine, or rent a porno movie, you are expecting to see pornography.
When you subscribe to net.jokes.sex, then you would expect to see
jokes about sex.  When you get a copy of the GNU emacs distribution
you do not expect to see either.  I've already heard from a couple
anti-free software people who have added to their list of sentiments:
"You have to put up with the immaturity of the developers".  Great.

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