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Well done for seeing a problem and trying to fix it. But ... Could I use an NHPL-licenced editor to criticise the Church of Scientology? Could I use an NHPL-
by duncan_bayne 15y ago
Well done for seeing a problem and trying to fix it.
But ...
Could I use an NHPL-licenced editor to criticise the Church of Scientology?
Could I use an NHPL-licenced bulletin board system to post content critical of the Westboro Baptists or Wahhabi Islam?
Could I use an NHPL-licenced chat program to criticise National Front neo-NAZIs?
- spindritf 15y agoThose are some extreme examples, what about just making fun of dumb people (think http://failblog.org/ http://failblog.org/ on steroids)?
- GuiA 15y agoThese are some interesting examples. In all of them, we are talking about disparaging intellectual positions, which I don't think belong to the same set of characteristics like the ones mentioned in the text (race, disability, gender, etc.) and therefore would be acceptable. Maybe adding a recursion clause? "This software can be used to disparage or discriminate on characteristics which inherently disparage or discriminate characteristics such as gender, disability, [...], etc." ;)
- duncan_bayne 15y agoDon't forget religion: that's an intellectual position that is (in most countries) freely chosen.