Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-08-12

[Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@gentoo.org>]

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On 30/07/14 13:44, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> Please carefully consider this matter. Having a dedicated group is
>  quite convenient to limit users from using games on workstations
> and is also handy as a parental control feature. Of course, a
> dedicated group is not an ultimate solution and can be evaded by
> technically skilled users, but it nevertheless helps.
If you need to limit users from using games on a workstation, something
is wrong somewhere else. As for parental control -- it makes no sense.
They can install games locally for their own user, and they can still
look at whatever you don't want them to look at using the WWW; and they
can also watch films you do not want them to watch, listen to music you
object to, or read books you disagree with.

Restricting access to games, or indeed films, music, books or other
things, is not a problem I think we should be concerned about. It's
much too difficult to get right, and in my opinion completely
pointless and stupid. If you want to censor your children's access to
creative outlets -- do it yourself on your own computer, instead of
tasking us with the job. We are not nannies.
- -- 
Alexander
bernalex@gentoo.org
https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander
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