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Re: [rain1 at airmail dot cc] Delete abortion joke


* Carlos O'Donell:

> +@node Government Censorship, Standards and Portability, Getting Started, Introduction
> +@section Government Censorship
> +@cindex censorship
> +
> +@string{Trigger warning: Talk of abortion.}
> +
> +The GNU project takes the position that government censorship should
> +not be supported.  Censorship threatens the distribution of information
> +in ways that restricts the freedoms of our users and harms the creativity
> +of the project.
> +
> +Censorship of technical information, cultural information, and even
> +information related to human abortion (regardless of your position on
> +the topic), should not be supported. Such censorship restricts the
> +freedoms of all users.

In most cultures, government restrictions on access to information
which is specifically designed to enable people to commit illegal acts
are not considered censorship.  I don't think you can list abortion in
this context without taking sides.


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