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by jchw 3248 days ago
Personally I could care less. It's a gag that I'm sure some people do find amusing.

But their response is what gets me. Boo hoo, free speech is dead because you don't want ostencibly-pedophilic jokes associated with your software.

I say if you're committed to an off-color joke or gag, this is a terrible attempt to save face. Just apologize with authenticity and go more subtle. Don't turn it into another *gate or whatever the hell.

Of course, I'm only indifferent because nobody got hurt. A similar but genuinely terrible situation would be the Python Pantyshot debacle...

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> I say if you're committed to an off-color joke or gag, this is a terrible attempt to save face. Just apologize with authenticity and go more subtle. Don't turn it into another *gate or whatever the hell.

Exactly, and this is so obviously a troll.

Look at the original feature request to even add the mirror:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/51870

You can see Pritz's hesitation at using "cuntflaps.me" as a mirror and his request to use a different name.

To which Alucard suggests "loli.forsale", instead.

So excuse the Arch maintainers for not allowing you to politicize their distribution, thereby polarizing their user base...

alucard.... is dracula spelled backwards..............
Well, I guess such a response is somewhat expected from someone who chooses to name a mirror that in the first place.