[rain1@airmail.cc] Delete abortion joke
Florian Weimer
fw@deneb.enyo.de
Fri May 4 09:25:00 GMT 2018
* Richard Stallman:
> > In most cultures, government restrictions on access to information
> > which is specifically designed to enable people to commit illegal acts
> > are not considered censorship.
>
> Abortion is not illegal in the US.
This wasn't my point. And I really do not want to discuss the
semantics associated with the word here.
I would be very disappointed if the GNU project promotes extreme views
on censorship (that is, only governments can do it, and that any
restriction on free speech is harmful) because I believe that
censorship is always a possibility when there is a power differential,
that you need a regulated environment to have truly open debate, and
that some speech is directly harmful and governments can legitimately
choose to ban it.
Furthermore, views on censorship (or abortion) should not matter at
all to users and contributors of the GNU C Library. We want to be
open to all kinds of people who support the free software movement, or
maybe are just interested in maintaining a C library.
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