[tex-live] Install Texlive 2008 "The Pirate Bay" website --- uncompressed

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Wed Oct 8 12:52:14 CEST 2008


Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 11:29:11AM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> > No, this is NOT censorship. Censorship means that we refuse someone
> > else's rights but no one here wrote that pornographic industry has no
> > right for advertisement. But people must NEVER be forced to accept any
> > advertisement. If you consider this as censorship, then all antispam
> 
> I agree. But here the question is not ads or no ads, but which ad.
> I would also prefer no ad, but if there is, discriminating against
> specific ads is censorship.

but the suggestion isn't that tex live shoud (by some mechanism or
other) discriminate against some ad or other.  the suggestion is that a
particular site, which sends offensive ads, should not be used.

> > filters are censorship and must be forbidden. Do you still think that
> > you must read every byte that comes through your computer, otherwise
> > it is censorship?
> 
> No. But this is not the right analogy.

what is?

r


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