[Discuss] Why use Linux?

[jack at coats.org (Jack Coats)]

Somehow this starts sounding like a bad Tom Cruise movie :)


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> wrote:

> 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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