Inappropriate content in Fedora Core 2

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Friday, August 06, 2004 10:31 AM -0500 Cris Rhea <crhea at mayo.edu> 
wrote:

> You folks are missing the boat!  While it is true that standards for
> "offensive material" are not universal, I think most folks understand what
> is appropriate and what is not in the workplace for most US-based
> companies.

The fundamental problem is that the standards are NOT universal, but 
whatever the jury of the day says. The system was deliberately created with 
subjective and arbitrary standards because those drafting the law had no 
success pushing through previous attempts with more concrete and objective 
definitions. Yet another case of paving with good intentions.

Because of this, corporations have to assume the most aggressive, hostile, 
irrational jury will try their case, and will err on the side of extreme 
caution, outlawing anything that might remotely offend anyone.

The result is a drab, grey, lifeless, joyless society.