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Remove fortune quotes attributed to or providing admiration of Adolf Hitler [pr bin/52735]

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: Subject : Remove fortune quotes attributed to or providing admiration of Adolf Hitler [pr bin/52735]

: From : Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>

: Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 13:21:25 +0100

It has come to my attention that FreeBSD has removed fortunes quoted from Adolf Hitler a few days ago. I was very surprised that there actually were such quotes! https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=325781 or https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/0271df5714d9ce5274f82889febb6536a2fdba59 Then soon after that they went a bit overboard and removed basically all fortune cookies: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=325828 I tried to find any discussion on this in the FreeBSD mailing lists but could not find anything, save something from 10 years ago where obviously nothing was done in the end. http://freebsd.1045724.x6.nabble.com/Re-who-wrote-this-td4249321.html I checked our fortune cookies database, and I was appalled to notice that we do have the same quotes there. Apart from those quotes being wholly inappropriate in a list of funny quotes, they are probably illegal in Germany (where I now happen to live). I hereby propose to remove them (but not remove all fortunes). I have sent a pr (bin/52735, http://gnats.netbsd.org/52735) with a patch. >How-To-Repeat: $ fortune -m Hitler all -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly.