On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 May 2009, Christopher Stone wrote: > >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> What if a non-authoritarian regime didn't want us to distribute a flag >>> that >>> was offensive to their democratically-empowered populace? Would that be >>> okay >>> then? >> >> Please Seth, a non-authoritarian regime wouldn't be making demands on >> what you can distribute, if they did, they would be authoritarian. >> Your logic needs to be improved, and I am in disagreement with you on >> this topic. > > Making laws does not make a gov't authoritarian. > > or rather if you believe that making laws makes a gov't authoritarian then > there is no point in continuing the conversation. > > Germany bans nazi flags - that's a classic example of a non-authoritarian > gov't keeping us from distributing specific flags. I would argue that it depends on the law. I would also argue that banning something like a flag means that you fear what that flag represents. The Chinese have to censor a lot of information because they fear it. The Communist party fears losing its power, that is why they censor and ban certain information. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
