On 21/12/2018 01.27, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: > We are not a Government.
We don't have a _Sovereign_ Government, but a Government we most certainly have. We are a body of people bound by a Constitution; this body has Officials acting on its behalf; we vote to represent our interests; we delegate powers; we subject ourselves to powers, etc. > Please don't conflate Debian ensuring we have a healthy community > with Government censorship, This action was not performed by the community, but by an Official acting Debian's behalf. Consequently, it _was_ government censorship. Government censorship, as a limitation of speech, can be of course be justified or not, but I don't want to go into that here. I merely want to refute the notion that "only Goverments can censor" implies that any non-Sovereign body cannot possibly censor. The thread title is valid. > Please don't conflate [...] a blog being removed from project > resources with the killing of a journalist. Absolutely. -- Christian Kastner