<div dir="ltr">Is being accused of censorship so bad? LA are complicit by running this mailing list in distributing emails to many people, and as such they have a responsibility for moderating its content. Personally, I would rather see a bit more censorship and a bit less bile. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Russell Coker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russell@coker.com.au" target="_blank">russell@coker.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Noel Butler <<a href="mailto:noel.butler@ausics.net">noel.butler@ausics.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Lastly, in my final post of this done to death thread (and its<br>
> variations), ask yourself this, if a woman had started this thread<br>
> complaining about men, would you have attacked her in the same way you<br>
<br>
</div>When a member of a minority group complains about treatment by the majority<br>
it's a very different issue to having a member of the majority group complain<br>
about the minority.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/roiphe/2013/08/the_anger_over_jane_austen_on_a_10_pound_note_proves_people_can_rage_over.html" target="_blank">http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/roiphe/2013/08/the_anger_over_jane_austen_on_a_10_pound_note_proves_people_can_rage_over.html</a><br>
<br>
Women are attacked for expressing their opinions in public in a very different<br>
way, the above article is one of many documenting this.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> the hypocrisy... you lot make me sick, I'm ashamed to be associated with<br>
> this organisation, any other organisation I'm a member of would never<br>
> have allowed this to get to this stage, and, if it did, would have<br>
> evicted the 'regular offenders' that here seem to get away with whatever<br>
<br>
</div>Actually the committee wanted to stop this discussion. But David accused them<br>
of attempting to censor him.<br>
<br>
It's not as if this discussion was in any way new or different. David's<br>
contributions to this list always seem to be on the same topics and get the<br>
same reaction. I can't imagine what the committee might have done that could<br>
have stopped this discussion without being accused of "censorship".<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> they want, I could go on, but if I do, It's only going to go downhill<br>
> and that wont be pleasant, so i';ll end my participation in this thread,<br>
> whilst I too, reconsider my decision as to if I wish to remain a member.<br>
<br>
</div>Linux Australia is about "free software". While the aims of organisations<br>
such as the GNU project were mostly about freedom from economic inequality<br>
with some tendencies towards socialism the broad concepts of "freedom" are<br>
widely accepted within the "free software" community.<br>
<br>
There has been a steady trend towards focussing on freedom in the FOSS<br>
community to include freedom from oppression and discrimination. This is well<br>
accepted due to the long history of "freedom" being accepted as a core value.<br>
<br>
I think that people who are opposed to treating members of minority groups<br>
well are going to find the FOSS community less welcoming for them.<br>
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