[liberationtech] how do I tell these Chinese people "You're doing it wrong!" ?

[Rebecca MacKinnon]

Better than just translating, you should talk to people like Isaac Mao who can spread the word around to the right communities within China. 
Copying him on this thread. Isaac I recommend you join this list.
Best,
Rebecca

On Nov 1, 2010, at 6:04 PM, Robert Guerra wrote:

> Rebecca MacKinnon, who's on this list could likely be of help as she's fluent in Mandarin.
> 
> regards
> 
> Robert
> 
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Frank Corrigan <email at franciscorrigan.com> wrote:
> You might want to ask one of the organisations listed at:
> http://www.internetfreedom.org/about whether they would help produce a
> notice in Chinese.
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Zooko O'Whielacronx" <zooko at zooko.com>
> To: liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu
> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:37:17 -0600
> Subject: [liberationtech] how do I tell these Chinese people "You're
> doing      it wrong!" ?
> 
> Folks:
> 
> It kind of seems like some people in China might be relying on using
> the Tahoe-LAFS public demo over unencrypted HTTP and thinking that it
> provides security properties like they would get if they ran their own
> copy of Tahoe-LAFS locally:
> 
> http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-November/005535.html
> 
> Or maybe that's not what they are thinking. There is a large
> language/cultural barrier here through which "google translate"
> provides merely a glimpse of meaning. As far as I know they have never
> read or understood any of my attempts to communicate with them.
> 
> Any suggestions from this crowd about how to manage this situation? As
> shown in the discussion on the tahoe-dev list, we might take down the
> public demo entirely or, more likely, try to put some sort of warning
> label on it in Chinese.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Zooko
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