skarn comments on [Drama] Developer of wgtunnel asks for app to be removed from F-Droid

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

I am starting to doubt what people mean by NSFW.

Is the bible not appropriare for children? Some passages are certainly a little tricky, one may fall on one side or the other on the issue, but it's a discussion that reasonable people might have.

Is it Not Safe For Work? I don't think so.

What does proselytizing have to do with anything? Is that why porn is considered NSFW?

Will it cause problems if you are caught watching porn on your phone in the cafeteria during lunch break? Yes, unless you literally work at Brazzers.

Are you going to be disciplined for reading the Bible in the cafeteria during lunch break? Well I would hope not.

Most of the objectionable things that can be found on the Wikipedia entry for say, the Waco siege, or some random war reportage.

NSFW did not use to mean "not for minors". There are plenty of things unsuitable for children that won't raise anyone's eyebrow among your colleagues.

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[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ezekiel 23:20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

And that's a tamer one, there is torture, rape, mass killing. Of course most Bibles from the many different religions are NSFW.

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[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

I'm surprised.

Noone at my work would blink if they found me carrying, I don't know, some Clive Barker book.

Most of that kind of content can be found on newspapers now, the state of the world being what it is, and where I work noone I think would object to me reading about that stuff (as long as I don't do it on the company's dime).

And I live in Germany which, I hear all the time from across the pond, has all kinds of free speech issues.

Again, I'm not saying I'd let my son read the bible.

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[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah, no one at my work would care as long as you're not making it weird, I think before I got here people were probably reading 59 shades of grey or other "spicy" books.

I think it's hypocritical to call some books as not appropriate for school or work while allowing religious texts that have that in it.

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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I've read tamer media that would still qualify as questionable. I think the real question is whether something is "NSFW" if it's written media rather than visual since it's unlikely a colleague is reading your book.

That being the case, F-Droid has its own definition for NSFW, and no reasonable definition of NSFW that doesn't specifically exclude written media or religious texts would exclude the Bible (or any Abrahamic religious text, really). It's more that those books get a pass for historical reasons than anything else.

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[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As I wrote above, noone where I work would blink for that kind of stuff, but I guess that doepends on the local culture.

I have looked and couldn't find the F-Droid definition of NSFW.

But I've read bits of the discussion and the whole thing was kinda nuts. By my criterion I'd let the Bible pass, but the way all those people jumped to "So ArE yOu BaNnInG tHe QuRaN aS wElL??!!?" was really embarassing.

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