- From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joe@cdt.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 09:28:48 -0400
- To: Emmanuel Revah <stsil@manurevah.com>
- CC: public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 10/5/13 7:01 AM, Emmanuel Revah wrote: > > [...] >>> Are retarded business models that want to be on the web more >>> important than the web's users ? W3C says yes. >> >> It just doesn't help to sling around insults like "retarded". > > > "Retarded" is an actual word that means something. Please, it's > like you've never heard this word outside of the context of a > school playground. It is a highly offensive word, in fact. And it undermines your argument to use it as so. You can say "ill-conceived", "backwards", "stuck in the past" and not use a word that might offend many native English speakers. best, Joe - -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall Senior Staff Technologist Center for Democracy & Technology 1634 I ST NW STE 1100 Washington DC 20006-4011 (p) 202-407-8825 (f) 202-637-0968 joe@cdt.org PGP: https://josephhall.org/gpg-key fingerprint: BE7E A889 7742 8773 301B 4FA1 C0E2 6D90 F257 77F8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEAREIAAYFAlJelJAACgkQwOJtkPJXd/jupACeI4orUevrlbyagJRUVhYlYUse 9usAn1Kq3MgLJCwmNOPwWIcdmHqM/5lO =K3VH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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