Sex Toys In Unity’s Dash: What’s The Big Deal?

Posted by lordpenguin on Sep 25, 2012 2:06 AM
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An interesting bug report cropped up on Launchpad a couple of days ago. Apparently, it is quite easy to bring up search results for sex toys, pornographic materials and other adult-related merchandise in Ubuntu 12.10 via the Dash.

This is an interesting “bug” report as it seems not to represent any sort of broken functionality whatsoever, though despite that fact, people seem to be heated in debate over this discovery. If anything, this begs the question about whether or not Canonical should be censoring results and considering users of all ages. Here are some comments from the bug report:

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