<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeremy Fowler</b> <<a href="mailto:JFowler@westrope.com">JFowler@westrope.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Is this flame bait?<br><br>Seriously,... WTF?<br><br><br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br></blockquote></div>
<br>Hardly to be considered as flamebait. Consider it as FUD suppressing.<br>Let's get real folks ! We currently have a reactionary and repressive to divergent<br> lifestyles society. Saying otherwise is dishonest. Proceeding from that flat fact?
<br><br><br>I can offer an alternate single concept ending to this post which gets restated as it's point.<br>So read the one liner and quit -or follow my logic and constructive dialog may profit.<br><br><br>Concept: " Please tag or declare all NSFW or similar Grody links as such "
<br><br>OK- either consider that the condensed version and quit here -or read on at your choice.<br>But again- this is NOT flamebait- this is a sincere attempt at protecting OSS.<br><br><br>If we want to mainstream OSS we need to be mindful of NOT creating bad press.
<br>In a pre-Google world perhaps we could be unconcerned. But- all it now takes is <br>a propagation from a semi-minuscule mailing list like THIS one into the "Blogosphere"<br>When one sees Huffington expounding her views on network television we should
<br>grasp that the gap between what we post here and CNN is getting awful thin!<br><br>Again- dare we underestimate how strident a "voice" gets raised if the story is Grody?<br>*I* am the LAST person to advocate censorship of any sort.
<br>But care in associations formed seems just simple prudence. <br>The example first coming to mind is a keyword search on KCLUG by a soccer mom.<br>She sees aforementioned link bearing page.-ABSENT a NSFW etc tag.<br>She opens it up-gasps- in attempt to flee she sees the next page's "pincushion" image.
<br>She then tells the social circles she lives in that Linux or OSS or whatever keyword <br>She was researching is entertained largely by THAT image. Nice public image eh?<br>And we sadly dare not as already stated lightly overlook such events any more.
<br><br>We are already in a time when File Sharing is equated with theft of music as it's only use.<br>Internet gambling has become a cause celebre in legislation way beyond any possible reality.<br>Add to that a widespread EXISTING belief that parental control means mom's hand on the mouse?
<br>So if mom's hand get's UNWARNED content and associates IT with US?<br> <br><br>Point restated as: " Please tag or declare all NSFW or similar Grody links as such "<br> <br>I can supply upon constructive request further explanation.
<br><br>Oren <br>