From c02d0888c2f15eaedec208a97f26810f0f1080b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 00:08:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Wording --- doc/EN/index.org | 2 +- website/EN/index.html | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/EN/index.org b/doc/EN/index.org index f434ada3..0bf58ed3 100644 --- a/doc/EN/index.org +++ b/doc/EN/index.org @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ This is personal or family scale computing, but with the ability to federate and "With the increasing move of our computing to cloud infrastructures, we give up the control of our computing to the managers of those infrastructures. Our terminals (laptops, desktops) might now be running entirely on Free Software, but this is increasingly irrelevant given that most of what actually matters gets executed on a remote closed system that we don’t control. The Free Software community needs to work to help users keep the control of all their computing, by developing suitable alternatives and facilitating their deployment." -- Lucas Nussbaum #+END_QUOTE -Today everyone is concerned about privacy on the internet. Wanting privacy doesn't necessarily mean you have "something to hide". It just means having the ability to choose /what information to share, with whom and under what conditions/ and therefore being able to shape your own life story. The loss of ability to choose via the "involuntary sharing" which many people experience when using communications systems built by the well known internet companies, means that you're no longer really running your own affairs and that others may begin to exert an improper amount of influence over you. Mass surveillance is perhaps the ultimate in involuntary sharing and it's only through the use of freedom respecting software together with a solid determination to overcome this kind of abuse of technology that we can hope to get to the kind of internet which we want. +Today everyone is concerned about privacy on the internet. Wanting privacy doesn't necessarily mean you have "something to hide". It just means having the ability to choose /what information to share, with whom and under what conditions/ and therefore being able to shape your own life story. The loss of ability to choose via the "involuntary sharing" which many people experience when using communications systems built by the well known internet companies, means that you're no longer really running your own affairs and that others may begin to exert an improper amount of influence over you. Mass surveillance is perhaps the ultimate in involuntary sharing and it's only through the use of freedom respecting software together with a solid determination to overcome state and corporate abuses of technology that we can hope to get to the kind of internet in which respect for human dignity is built in as a core feature. #+BEGIN_CENTER [[file:images/nocloud.png]] diff --git a/website/EN/index.html b/website/EN/index.html index 4a1487bc..75a75f48 100644 --- a/website/EN/index.html +++ b/website/EN/index.html @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ - + @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ This is personal or family scale computing, but with the ability to federate and

-Today everyone is concerned about privacy on the internet. Wanting privacy doesn't necessarily mean you have "something to hide". It just means having the ability to choose what information to share, with whom and under what conditions and therefore being able to shape your own life story. The loss of ability to choose via the "involuntary sharing" which many people experience when using communications systems built by the well known internet companies, means that you're no longer really running your own affairs and that others may begin to exert an improper amount of influence over you. Mass surveillance is perhaps the ultimate in involuntary sharing and it's only through the use of freedom respecting software together with a solid determination to overcome this kind of abuse of technology that we can hope to get to the kind of internet which we want. +Today everyone is concerned about privacy on the internet. Wanting privacy doesn't necessarily mean you have "something to hide". It just means having the ability to choose what information to share, with whom and under what conditions and therefore being able to shape your own life story. The loss of ability to choose via the "involuntary sharing" which many people experience when using communications systems built by the well known internet companies, means that you're no longer really running your own affairs and that others may begin to exert an improper amount of influence over you. Mass surveillance is perhaps the ultimate in involuntary sharing and it's only through the use of freedom respecting software together with a solid determination to overcome state and corporate abuses of technology that we can hope to get to the kind of internet in which respect for human dignity is built in as a core feature.