On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 02:14:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro> writes: > > > I was recently at the UN forum on business and human rights, listening > > to an Iranian dissident talk[1] about the extremes that his country goes > > to in censoring and silencing people who don't agree with their rulers. > > I would encourage people to watch the video. > > > At that very same moment, the anti-harassment team were censoring[2] a > > Debian Developer's blog from Planet Debian. Chilling. > > > I actually looked at Planet shortly after attending that panel > > discussion and immediately noticed that Norbert Preining[3] had been > > censored. Disappearances of Khashoggi[4] and Kamphuis[5] came to mind. > > Entirely apart from the merits of the rest of your discussion of whether > the project should republish this blog using project resources, this > framing is appalling and blatantly dishonest. It intentionally conflates > issues of government censorship and journalistic freedom that have cost > people their lives with a dispute over whether Debian should *republish* > content that has not been censored, restricted, or removed in any way, let > alone been subject to threats of physical violence. > > I object in the strongest possible terms to this framing of your argument. > You should be profoundly ashamed for choosing this path of malicious > exaggeration phrased as an attack on the work of fellow developers. It > was completely unbecoming of a Debian project member.
Thank you for illustrating so well why Daniel's words were spot on. Your response is exactly why censorship must not be tolerated in Debian. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Ivan was a worldly man: born in St. Petersburg, raised in ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Petrograd, lived most of his life in Leningrad, then returned ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ to the city of his birth to die.