[Discuss] Why use Linux?

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

On 2/12/2014 6:56 AM, js wrote:
> one thing you have not mentioned are any back doors put in proprietary
> operating systems by the orders of the US government. while it may not
> be relevant to many, it is relevant to some people [and i'm talking
> about whistle blowers or human rights activists instead of child porn
> merchants].

No offense, but I don't feel one is different from another. As soon as 
we start to say that /some/ speech is "good" and /some/ speech is not, 
we lose.

After all, a photograph of a naked child lying dead in a ditch at My Lai 
could be interpreted as  "child porn" - and Robert Mapplethorpe's 
photographs of partially naked children could be (and was) interpreted 
as having redeeming social merit.

Porn, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, and the question is if 
we, as a society, should allow our government to examine what people 
/might/ say, before they say it.

My $0.02. YMMV.

Bill

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