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I think there is in fact a discrepancy between displaying flags and advocating directly for gendered violence:

> Debian contributor "NoisyCoil" said that they had wanted to argue in favor of keeping the packages, but after looking at the content they had decided against it:

> > I went peeking at the package and, unless I'm completely missing something, the second offensive Italian fortune says that women's "no"s should be interpreted as "yes", while the third one explicitly calls for violence on women [1]. Like, it literally says women should be beaten on a regular basis. I'm afraid I can't help you here, sorry.

from https://lwn.net/Articles/1031750/, linked in the fine article

> I think there is in fact a discrepancy between displaying flags and advocating directly for gendered violence

NosiyCoil forgot to mention that I removed hundreds of fortunes containing racist/sexist jokes from the regular section, installed by default to every Italian user and displayed by default.

I basically grew up reading them and 20 years later, I forked fortunes-it to get rid of them and put them in the offensive section. And then Cater unilaterally decided to remove it.

But neither NoisyCoil, nor Cater, not anyone else stepped up to actually read the fortunes that were not tagged as offensive and were being installed and displayed by default.

One year later, I'm still the only person doing this work.

Archlinux is still using the pre-fork version where this content is still present in the main section.

That article is very one sided. The author spoke to Cater but did not think of reaching out to me for comments.

NoisyCoil is of the opinion that offensive stuff in the offensive section (not installed nor displayed by default) are worse than quotes from fascist writers that in 2026 still inspire people to beat up journalists in Italy, installed and displayed by default.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/07/msg00186.html

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