German ktouch lessons make users type violent, threatening text

Natanji natanji at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 16:58:19 UTC 2016


Hi,
I've just been made aware on Twitter [1] that the ktouch software - part
of the KDE Edu project - has a lesson in which users must type the text
"erledige die genannten sachen sonst haue ich dich richtig lange durch".
This roughly translates to "Do the named things or I will punch you over
a long period of time".

This is completely unacceptable.

KDE Edu is advertised as software for, among others, *children*. The
sentence can be contextualized as one that an abusive
parent/guardian/teacher might say to a child in order to get them to
work harder, and I'm sure KDE Edu doesn't want to do this.

I have no clue where else this can be reported quickly to make sure
sentences like these don't appear in the software anymore, but I felt
this mailing list was probably a good starting point since you all
probably share the goal of making KDE Edu software actually appropriate
for children. There should be an investigation into making the training
sentences of ktouch safe and violence-free.

FYI, I'm not interested in other mailing list content, so I haven't
subsribed to the list - please put me into the CC if you want to answer
me. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
Natanji

[1] https://twitter.com/NerdResa/status/702894227332710401


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