Re: Användande av öknamn (var: Re: [selinux-aktiva] Myndigheters websidor borde fungera i Mozilla/Firefox)

[Jeremiah Foster]

On Aug 28, 2005, at 1:41 PM, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Alexander Nordström wrote:
>
>> Jag har svårt att se hur formuleringen "jag skulle gärna se", som 
>> Jonas
>> skrev, kan tolkas som en begränsning av diskussionsfriheten.
>
> Aha... Det var bara en rekommendation.
> Jag måste erkänna att jag blev lite rädd ett tag där.
>
>> Jag ser det som ett påpekande; en rekommendation--inte ett förbud.
>
> Då är saken klar. Nu kan vi gå vidare.

But this is exactly the type of subtle self-censorship that allows true 
freedom of speech to be suppressed. Now that somone carefully spoke the 
unspoken rules, he can continue the conversation along the path allowed 
by the community of this list. This is self-censorship. The danger is 
that ideas and insights will now be repressed and the community will 
suffer because they cannot understand the world as it is.

Nicknames are names and like every other form of speech they carry 
conotations, both good and bad, that is what makes the language richer. 
When the communtiy gently steers its members from their chosen 
expression, they are chosing the truth they want to see.

Unfortunately the world is not that way. Science shows us things about 
ourselves that are true and unpleasant, things perhaps we would like to 
surpress. Look at the ridiculous debate in the US over Intelligent 
Design. It shows how manipulating the parameters of the debate changes 
the debate itself.

Linux is one of the most important open social constructs of our time. 
Let us not hinder how it can express itself.

Jeremiah