Manipulation, eh? Yeah, the only way I can see that holding up in court is by saying that it places responsibility for the files solely in the hands of the person who downloaded them...
If it's wrong to open a file you downloaded would it be OK to invite a friend over to your house to open the files for you...?
I think the answer's pretty obvious...Not all programers/tech people are unloved geeks, and when they stop working they don't just want to go home and go to sleep...Most people don't get a lot of recreation from their jobs, and if recreation is what they're looking for, they're going to try to find the easiest place to get it.
The thing that I find truly bizzare about this situation is that they are censuring the work of an innocent student who is only studying a facet of society. I could understand and definitely condone the fuss if the report was trying to prove that white people are somehow better than black people or some other racist claim, but the motivation behind it was entirely innocent.
Despite the best efforts of the more enlightened and well-intentioned people in our society, descrimination still exists and it doesn't hurt to be reminded of that once and a while and to have our conciousness on the matter raised a little bit. This simple science fair project was in no way racist. It was, from my interperetation of the article, trying to show how some people are still descriminated against, and how that impacts negatively on children.
If we're going to take out all descussion of racism from public schools do we eliminate Civil Rights units from history class and censor books about Martin Luther King, Jr. because they talk about racism? Don't deny an issue just because it makes you uncomfortable; confronting it is the only way to solve it.
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If it's wrong to open a file you downloaded would it be OK to invite a friend over to your house to open the files for you...?
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Despite the best efforts of the more enlightened and well-intentioned people in our society, descrimination still exists and it doesn't hurt to be reminded of that once and a while and to have our conciousness on the matter raised a little bit. This simple science fair project was in no way racist. It was, from my interperetation of the article, trying to show how some people are still descriminated against, and how that impacts negatively on children.
If we're going to take out all descussion of racism from public schools do we eliminate Civil Rights units from history class and censor books about Martin Luther King, Jr. because they talk about racism? Don't deny an issue just because it makes you uncomfortable; confronting it is the only way to solve it.
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