svn commit: r246362 - head/games/fortune/datfiles

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday,  5 February 2013 at 11:45:40 -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:39:38 am Dag-Erling SmXXrgrav wrote:
>> Author: des
>> Date: Tue Feb  5 14:39:37 2013
>> New Revision: 246362
>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/246362
>>
>> Log:
>>   Remove political propaganda
>>
>> Modified:
>>   head/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real
>
> *sigh*
>
> I'm sure there are other quotes that people who do not share your
> political persuasion might find propaganda or offensive, etc.
> Censorship and freedom of speech is quite a sticky widget, and I
> think the only truly sane policy is that fortune files are
> append-only (unless we outright remove them and that seems
> excessive).  And new things should have a very high bar to be added
> to fortune.  Perhaps we should move fortunes-o to ports entirely?

Agreed, it shouldn't be up to individuals to decide which fortunes are
*too* offensive.  In this case, I suspect that there's a distinct
difference between the perceptions of people inside and outside the
USA.  I also find Limbaugh particularly hard to stomach, but I don't
think it should have been removed.

The real issue I see is that, for whatever reason, the Limbaugh
fortunes pop up far too frequently.  It's as if the random number
generation is failing.  Comments?

Greg
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