OT -- [RE: Inappropriate content in Fedora Core 2]
netmask
netmask at enZotech.net
Fri Aug 6 15:54:09 UTC 2004
> Yes, in case you where not aware, you do have to get involved with what your
> kids are looking at, doing, etc on the computer. I'm sick of parents who
> want the world to raise their lousy kids. Does everything in the world have
> to be for the kids? Has the entire planet gone PG-13!
Don't be ignorant. Small children should be supervised using the computer..
Should they be supervised every minute of the day, even when they walk from
the bedroom to the kitchen to get another juice box.. and might see a penis on
Dads monitor in the computer room or den?
Are we ever going to stop kids from finding a playboy somewhere, hearing bad
words on the bus, catching porn on the 3 day preview with Skinemax gives you
each year, or seeing janet jacksons boobs? No.. these things happen. If
Windows included this screen saver, the world would be outraged.. The normal
windows lemmings don't seem to be nearly as tolerant or understanding as the
linux community.. but that's because they are nearly a different species from
us.
This a little bigger than just the 'penis' issue.. we're talking overall by
now. I haven't seen this penis screensaver, I don't know if its artsy, if its
graphic, or if its just a dotted line with a tip on it.. So maybe this is all
extreme, but I think the overall discussion has kind of gotten onto
inappropriate content in general.
We're not talking about the linux community raising his kids.. we're talking
about inappropriate content being installed without warning, on a system that
Redhat is pushing as 'for the people since we are charging for our other stuff
now.. so via fedora, we'll beta test everything on the public and make them
help us with our commercial product!'... Which is a two way street.
Perhaps we should include some default screen savers that include that popular
image of the two elderly gentleman that are nude and giving each other oral
pleasure. We'll just name it the 'oldgents' extension. While probably not
offensive to parts of the community, it has absolutely no business being a
default option in Fedora does it?
Package whatever you want with Fedora.. Someone just pointed it out very
well.. Things with possibly inappropriate content should have a marking of
some sort. Whether its in the rpm description, listed via install, or
something.
>
> I'm sure that if your kids grow up screwed up, it's not because of the
> screensaver.
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