On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Nicolás Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > I forward this here too since it can be of interest to everybody.
Thanks > ----- Forwarded message from Nicolás Reynolds <[email protected]> ----- > >> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 14:44:01 -0300 >> From: Nicolás Reynolds <[email protected]> >> To: FreedomBox i18n <[email protected]> >> Cc: FreedomBox Español <[email protected]> >> Subject: Translating expressions... >> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) >> >> Hi, I was translating to es_AR the wiki and found several expressions that Hey, I should help you with that :P >> can shock readers outside the US, and IMO taint the expressions of Moglen >> himself in the speeches I translated. >> >> First of all is the use of "Free World"[0] to refer to a certain sector of >> the world. As the Wikipedia reference says, it was coined during the Cold >> War to refer to US and other non-communist countries. In case you don't >> know, during those times the US government and it's agencies[1] not only >> promoted unfreedomness in Latin America and other countries, but also >> supported and trained dictatorships that tortured and murderer people por >> political reasons (Argentina, for instance, has 30.000 missing persons and >> 500 kids that were illegally adopted by military officers, but only 100 of >> which were returned to their families during the past 26 years). So "Free >> World" actually doesn't mean anything like it to us. I couldn't agree more, as a latinamerican person, with this comment. >> Other expressions, like "help your friends in opressive countries" and >> such make it sound that way, the really wrong way, in which "free" >> countries deliver their freedom to the rest of the world. Yeah, oppressive countries like France with the HADOPI law[0] and Spain with their so called "Sinde law"[1] >> I said this kind of expressions taint Moglen's sayings since he express >> very clearly that FreedomBoxes should be in every home, because the >> unfreedomness of the Net doesn't only come from oppressive governments but >> from "American" enterprises and government agencies. It's not that his >> words are carved on stone, but I believe his discourse is far more radical >> than what's currently expressed on the website. And exactly those US corporations/government agencies are lobbying in every country for control, vigilance and centralization in the net, and selling devices for control and vigilance to oppressive governments. >> Otherwise you'll find many people saying "No, thanks" to FreedomBox and >> still use unfree technologies that sell themselves as neutral. >> >> >> [0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Free_world >> [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Escuela_de_las_americas [0]: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/HADOPI_law [1]: http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2010/12/09/net-neutrality-spain-and-wikileaks/ _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
