Comment 35 for bug 1054282

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Lorenzo (deodato-art) wrote :

IMHO we have to be careful to prevent this discussion from becoming "philosophical". The question is that in the default installation of Ubuntu, erotic content may be shown to users that are not explicitly looking for it. Now, I do not have a degree in psychology, HCI or the such but I am pretty sure many people could perceive this as inappropriate/unwanted.

Can this be fixed with some tweaking? Sure. Is it a good message for a beginner? Probably not. Something along the lines of "Linux is totally cool and safe -- by the way, you have to run this cryptic terminal command if you do not want to see boobies in your start menu" - that is not reassuring.

I think this feature was poorly thought, and someone needs to go back, rethink about it and fix this. Whether the solution is some magical adult-content filter, or deactivating the feature alltogether, or creating a separating shopping lens is not so relevant.