Comment 28 for bug 739469

I just encountered this issue on a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04. I am having serious trouble believing that this has actually been a matter of discussion for over a year - it needs to go. If no plan can be developed for a comprehensive filtering scheme to be deployed NOW, then this "lens" feature - and to be clear, I mean the misguided feature that lists installable software in the menu - needs to be removed until such a filter can be built.

Why is this a holy war? If it offends religious people, fine, do it to appease them. I'm an atheist married father of two with more than twenty gigabytes of double penetration on a tertiary hard drive and I STILL don't want my operating system offering ways to watch it autonomously.

The reasons I have for wanting this removed from the menu are simple:

 1. I will no longer recommend Ubuntu to friends and family, particularly older individuals because now the OS reflects poorly on me as a user
 2. It makes the operating system feel far less professional if it's peddling smut to me. I love smut, but I can find it on my own.
 3. I can't use Ubuntu to demo something for a client, because if I need anything from the menu there's a chance that this stuff will appear unbidden.

But seriously, this is dumb, stop it now. It doesn't matter if this is a free speech to you - if you care that much about the ethical principle of the thing, you should look for a distro that doesn't include proprietary drivers because that is a much more immediate and pressing threat to your rights than being able to display porn icons in the main menu.

Having these apps in the MENU is a completely different question to having them in the SOFTWARE CENTER. I want this stuff available, just not advertised BY THE OPERATING SYSTEM.

In closing, this hurts me professionally and it negates any ability or desire I might have to spread the OS to my social circle and family.