Anarchism FAQ?! WTF?...

[Quim Gil]

The anarchism pacjage in universe contains an offline version of
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/ -- a well known resource if
you are interested in these topics. In the website there is a way to
contact the authors, and the page is being updated.

In mostIn most if not all democracies it is legal to publish and
distribute anarchist materials,
as it is to do the same with other ideologies and religions. Note
though that there are exceptions  i.e. Nazi stuff in Germany.

I don't see the issue here, really. And it's a dangerous path to
start. You start censoring anarchism, others question the Bible,
another one comes with the homosexual thing, then the Quran is at
risk... One week later even Diving into Python is removed from the
repository. :)

In the meantime, someone  could come up with the idea of why censor
this content while you allow the downloading of games where,
basically, you kill people or break the law driving dangerously, and
there we go.


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9/07, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, February 9, 2007 3:28 pm, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> > "Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> What is a political screed on anarchism doing in the Ubuntu
> >> repositories?
> >
> > Someone packaged it, in Debian, and it became part of Ubuntu (universe)
> > as a result of the routine sync between the two distributions.
> >
> >> Would similar packages for, say, communism, national socialism,
> >> Objectivist capitalism, libertarianism, etc. be accepted?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > Seriously, what did you think the answer was going to be?
> >
> >
> > The problem with freedom -- and much of the free software movement, of
> > which Ubuntu is a part, is about freedom -- is that people publish ideas
> > that disagree with you.
> >
> > It may seem odd but, at the end of the day, as long as the content
> > adheres to the rules of Debian and Ubuntu there is no reason for it to
> > be excluded.
>
> Actually, personally I can't help but feel that this attitude can be
> dangerous when we are talking about pure written material, as opposed to
> programs. For instance, there may be problems where the reliability of the
> material included is at risk.
>
> If there is *no* analysis at all of material in the repository, then it
> will be a race to include your point of view, and that race will be won by
> the people with most packagers on their team!
>
> A different solution might be just to take a view about the reliability of
> a particularly comprehensive resource, like wikipedia, and ship that.
>
> If a particular package has a maintainer who is willing to accept bug
> reports on the reliability of the material, then that's a different
> matter.
>
> Matt
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