Ben Hutchings writes ("Re: [Debconf-discuss] DebConf conference policy on profanity"): > Biella also tweeted one of her slides in advance of her talk, and I > pointed out the rule to her then. I believe she subsequently discussed > the (considerable) number of quoted expletives in the slides with the > organisers, and they settled on a content warning at the beginning of > the talk.
Right. Her talk (which I found very interesting and illuminating) raised somewhat different issues. It would have been impossible for her to deal properly with her subject matter without quoting (and showing) some of her primary source materials. Without that it would have been very hard to get a proper understanding. Many of those were very offensive, and if forming part of a talk in the ordinary way would have been a grievious violation. The content warning was IMO an entirely appropriate way of dealing with this difficulty. It would have been nice if that had been supplemented by a warning in the programme, but most people would have probably heard of the community which was the subject matter of her talk and realised that such an anthropological report would necessarily involve presenting and analysing some very egregious material. Thanks, Ian. _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss