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Re: Delete abortion joke
The Mexico City policy is clearly counter to the GNU project's philosphy:
<https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html>
Removing the "joke" now feels like a direct attack on Michelle Wolf and
her right to satire. Are the glibc maintainers ok with looking like
they're siding with the extremists who savagely attacked her for her
remarks last week?
https://youtu.be/DDbx1uArVOM?t=8m14s
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/04/29/michelle-wolfs-caustic-comedy-routine-at-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-annotated/>
The comment, which I'd call a paradox rather than a joke, is entirely
appropriate as an easter egg or reminder about absurd regulations and
the difficulties of making and distributing free software (or exercising
other individual liberties), which is what GNU is about.
It should stay were it was.
Federico (FSFE supporter)