You would make a decent dictator I have to to add. What happened to democracy in which everyone has the rights of an own voice and opinion, and the rights to be heard?
You are making the logical fallacy that so many make in democratic cultures.. and it is something that I really think is ruining many democratic societies. Or at the least harming them. We all have the right to freedom, of speech, religion, beliefs, values, all of that. What we do not have, is the right to restrict other peoples freedoms. If zack's work offends you, avoid it. Lesson learned. I completely agree that it was stupid, irresponsible, and immature to say what he said. However, he has every right in the world to say it. The only person who lost anything by saying it was him, because by offending people like you he is shortening his own customer base. For some reason Mark, I feel like you might want to quote my last sentence and tell me "what about all those who have lost loved ones to cancer?" or something along those lines. Him saying that, caused neither you, nor anyone else in the world, to have cancer. His words only effect your life as much as you let them. If you take offence at what he has to say, its your fault for continuing to listen.
Theory11 was fairly explicit about this, anything and everything that goes on the wire is the work of the artists themselves. Those products do not represent the beliefs, opinions, or values of the Theory11 team. So long as it has application, and it isn't copyrighted, they will post it. As in any free market, the invisible hand is what dictates what is and what is not okay for artists to post to the wire. As I said earlier, if too many are offended by this, people will stop buying his products, and his humor will be forgotten. Theory11 has no responsibility to ensure that their material is non-offensive. It is your responsibility to avoid people you find offensive.
As you can probably tell, I hate people that are easily offended. Also, the Dutch are not known for being the rudest and least sensitive people by any means. The rudest title belongs to the French, and the least sensitive the Japanese. In fact, the Dutch are known for being tolerant and liberal minded, which goes quite against your opinions in this thread.
At the end of the day, I completely agree with you mark. He should not have said that. I just cannot stand it when people try to get something removed because it is offensive. Everyone should be free to be as offensive as they want, and suffer the consequences of it.
As to the copyright claim, I do not know his exact method so I cannot be sure. However, I have seen so many variations on this move with my scant amount of resources, that I find it difficult to believe that it has not been published before. Difficult, but not impossible.
