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

Benjamin Kaduk bjkfbsd at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 16:51:01 UTC 2013


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:45 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> 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?
>

I am more concerned about the insta-MFC than the removal per se.
Only security or legal issues are cause to go under 3 days, was my
impression.

-Ben


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