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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 24. feb. 2012 02:20, cmaglothin wrote:
> He didn't say take them out of the market, I think he meant take them 
> out of the suggested apps in the lenses. Or at least make it where 
> non-PG apps are not placed in the suggestions of the lenses by default 
> and have it be opt out.

I had never heard of PG before you mentioned it. I had to look it up on 
Wikipedia. It's a USA thing, right? Like Mark Twain, Tolkien, 
Dostojevski, etc? Too strong for the american public?

I will tell you a few things about my perspective. I am under attack by 
everyone. 30% of the population really hates USA in public. Most hate 
them in private, but it's not considered politically correct to hate USA 
because of the Marshall plan, so most don't. 40% of the population hates 
the arabic world. Nobody hates Africa, of course. That would be 
politically incorrect. We are the world, aren't we? I was born in 1980, 
which makes me a factor. Nobody would ever want to mess with africa. 
That would kill any public persons name. China? Everyone hates them, 
except for the products, of course. They hate us and want to make us an 
new Cuba, but that works out fine, because the reason they hate us is 
our belief in free speech.

USA is beginning to look like Iran from a Norwegian perspective. 
Unfortunately, the american fundamentalism is the least of our problems 
these days. The level of fundamentalism in a country that claims to be 
free, is staggering. You're punishing teachers for teaching the 
connotations of the word nigger. Have you gone insane? It would be like 
punishing a Norwegian teacher for teaching why nazism is bad. We don't 
do that yet, because we haven't reached the level of insanity that the 
USA has. We are certainly on our way, of course. We still have some 
pieces of democracy and the freedom of speech.

Let me put it in your own language, that comes to me without any kind of 
involvement on my part. And you'll never find any kind of similar text 
on the internet with my signature on it, the point being that it's quite 
possible to know words without using them;

Take your american bitch ass motherfucking for-death/pro-life hypocrisy 
and get the fuck out of my internet. And don't let the door hit your fat 
bigoted american ass on your motherfucking way out.

Or otherwise, we might possibly get together and figure out how to make 
the peoples of the world agree with your views on what's appropriate and 
what's not. That would be a better solution, from my perspective. For 
instance, in Norway, it is perfectly legal for me as a man to go into a 
café with no shirt on, since I'm a man, but they're discussing whether 
or not it should be legal for women to cover their hair. Isn't that 
beautiful? What is your perspective on this with regards to the 
internet? But obviously, I would be wrong. We might for instance discuss 
whether or not Ubuntu should spread books that sell the notion of 
drinking human blood and eating their flesh as a way to become more 
valuable. But few americans would ever champion the idea that Ubuntu 
should forbid the bible. Would they?

Norwegians who went to America and made a fortune, are promoted as 
heroes. Africans who come to Norway in order to make an honest buck, are 
considered criminals. Trust me when I tell you that I am deeply and 
personally offended by the fact that this is how the world works. I know 
the USA has the same concept with Mexicans.

I understand the difficulties. But I reject the notion that sexuality 
should be the next victim of the righteous right to decide what's proper 
and what is not. If you want to protest, then protest the promotion of 
the bible or the qur'an or the tora.

We could not possibly, under any circumstance, sensor naked humans for 
young people without requiring some sort of registration. If you don't 
like that, go make your own distro. In the meantime, perhaps parents 
should teach their own children what to do and what now to do.

I apologize for my anger on this one, but it just couldn't be helped.

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Jo-Erlend Schinstad