Package Maintainers Flags policy

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Christopher Stone wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 19 May 2009, Christopher Stone wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What if a non-authoritarian regime didn't want us to distribute a flag
>>>> that
>>>> was offensive to their democratically-empowered populace? Would that be
>>>> okay
>>>> then?
>>>
>>> Please Seth, a non-authoritarian regime wouldn't be making demands on
>>> what you can distribute, if they did, they would be authoritarian.
>>> Your logic needs to be improved, and I am in disagreement with you on
>>> this topic.
>>
>> Making laws does not make a gov't authoritarian.
>>
>> or rather if you believe that making laws makes a gov't authoritarian then
>> there is no point in continuing the conversation.
>>
>> Germany bans nazi flags - that's a classic example of a non-authoritarian
>> gov't keeping us from distributing specific flags.
>
> I would argue that it depends on the law.  I would also argue that
> banning something like a flag means that you fear what that flag
> represents.  The Chinese have to censor a lot of information because
> they fear it.  The Communist party fears losing its power, that is why
> they censor and ban certain information.

we don't care why they do it.

only that it hurts fedora there.

-sv