[FM Discuss] Circumvention in Farsi

[adam at flossmanuals.net]

please do not use the floss manuals url.

there are people in iran that have worked for fm but had nothing to do
with that manual and i dont wish them to get into trouble because of this.

i think it is best we remove the material from this URL

adam



> Hi Ed
>
> the Farsi translation of "How Bypass Internet Censorship" is fully
> available here:
> http://fa.flossmanuals.net/CircumventionTools/Introduction
> as well as on the Sesawe website:
> https://www.sesawe.net/-Manuals-fa-.html
>
> For Iranian circumvention tools users, Sesawe also proposes support by
> mail at english at sesawe.net and farsi at sesawe.net.
>
> There is also a translation in Russian available here
> http://translate.flossmanuals.net/CircumventionTools_ru/Introduction
> and here
> https://www.sesawe.net/-Manuals-ru-.html
>
> Chinese and Arabic translations are on their way.
>
> Yours,
> Laurent
>
> Edward Cherlin wrote:
>> We should have done this sooner, but can we speed up the Farsi
>> translation of How to Bypass Internet Censorship? I have a message to
>> Cory Doctorow, who is Tweeting on the issue. Also, I see that the
>> translation section has been reorganized. Where are the translations
>> in progress? I would like to be able to direct volunteers there.
>>
>> We had a predictable increase in censorship in China on the Tiananmen
>> anniversary, and now China has demanded that filtering software be put
>> on every new computer sold in China.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China#Green_Dam_Youth_Escort
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort
>>
>> "Online polls conducted by leading Chinese web portals revealed poor
>> acceptance of the software by netizens. On Sina and Netease, over 80%
>> of poll participants said they would not consider or were not
>> interested in using the software; on Tencent, over 70% of poll
>> participants said it was unnecessary for new computers to be preloaded
>> with filtering softwares; on Sohu, over 70% of poll participants said
>> filtering softwares would not effectively prevent minors from browsing
>> inappropriate websites."
>>
>> They got that right.
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