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Yavor Doganov |
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www/philosophy censoring-emacs.html philosophy.... |
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Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:40:43 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 07/04/01 16:40:43
Modified files:
philosophy : censoring-emacs.html philosophy.html
Log message:
* [censoring-emacs]: Templated.
* [philosophy]: Added link to censoring-emacs.html.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/censoring-emacs.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.9&r2=1.10
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/philosophy.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.238&r2=1.239
Patches:
Index: censoring-emacs.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/censoring-emacs.html,v
retrieving revision 1.9
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -b -r1.9 -r1.10
--- censoring-emacs.html 26 Apr 2005 18:32:29 -0000 1.9
+++ censoring-emacs.html 1 Apr 2007 16:40:39 -0000 1.10
@@ -1,48 +1,25 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
- "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en">
-
-<head>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
<title>Censoring My Software, by Richard Stallman</title>
-<meta http-equiv="content-type" content='text/html; charset=utf-8' />
-<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/gnu.css" />
-<link rev="made" href="mailto:address@hidden"; />
-</head>
-
-<!-- This document is in XML, and xhtml 1.0 -->
-<!-- Please make sure to properly nest your tags -->
-<!-- and ensure that your final document validates -->
-<!-- consistent with W3C xhtml 1.0 and CSS standards -->
-<!-- See validator.w3.org -->
-
-<body>
-
-<p><a href="#translations">Translations</a> of this page</p>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Censoring My Software</h2>
-<h3>Censoring My Software</h3>
-<p>
-by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";><strong>Richard Stallman</strong></a></p>
<p>
+by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";><strong>Richard Stallman</strong></a>
+<br />
[From Datamation, March 1 1996]</p>
-<p>
-<a href="/graphics/philosophical.html"><img
src="/graphics/philosophical-gnu-sm.jpg"
- alt=" [image of a Philosophical Gnu] "
- width="160" height="200" /></a>
-</p>
<p>
-Last summer, a few clever legislators proposed a bill to "prohibit
-pornography" on the Internet. Last fall, the right-wing Christians
-made this cause their own. Last week, President Clinton signed the
-bill. This week, I'm censoring GNU Emacs.</p>
+Last summer, a few clever legislators proposed a bill to
+“prohibit pornography” on the Internet. Last fall, the
+right-wing Christians made this cause their own. Last week, President
+Clinton signed the bill. This week, I'm censoring GNU Emacs.</p>
<p>
No, GNU Emacs does not contain pornography. It's a software package,
an award-winning extensible and programmable text editor. But the law
that was passed applies to far more than pornography. It prohibits
-"indecent" speech, which can include anything from famous poems, to
-masterpieces hanging in the Louvre, to advice about safe sex . . .to
-software.</p>
+“indecent” speech, which can include anything from famous
+poems, to masterpieces hanging in the Louvre, to advice about safe sex
+… to software.</p>
<p>
Naturally, there was a lot of opposition to this bill. Not only from
people who use the Internet and people who appreciate erotica, but
@@ -55,22 +32,23 @@
succeeded in misinforming the public. So now I am censoring my
software.</p>
<p>
-You see, Emacs contains a version of the famous "doctor program,"
-a.k.a. Eliza, originally developed by Professor Weizenbaum at MIT.
-This is the program that imitates a Rogerian psychotherapist. The user
-talks to the program, and the program responds--by playing back the
-user's own statements, and by recognizing a long list of particular
-words.</p>
+You see, Emacs contains a version of the famous “doctor
+program,” a.k.a. Eliza, originally developed by Professor
+Weizenbaum at <abbr title="Massachusetts Institute of
+Technology">MIT</abbr>. This is the program that imitates a Rogerian
+psychotherapist. The user talks to the program, and the program
+responds—by playing back the user's own statements, and by
+recognizing a long list of particular words.</p>
<p>
The Emacs doctor program was set up to recognize many common curse
-words and respond with an appropriately cute message such as, "Would
-you please watch your tongue?" or "Let's not be vulgar." In order to
-do this, it had to have a list of curse words. That means the source
-code for the program was indecent.</p>
+words and respond with an appropriately cute message such as,
+“Would you please watch your tongue?” or “Let's not
+be vulgar.” In order to do this, it had to have a list of curse
+words. That means the source code for the program was indecent.</p>
<p>
So this week I removed that feature. The new version of the doctor
doesn't recognize the indecent words; if you curse at it, it replays
-the curse back to you--for lack of knowing better. (When the new
+the curse back to you—for lack of knowing better. (When the new
version starts up, it announces that it has been censored for your
protection.)</p>
<p>
@@ -80,29 +58,31 @@
impossible. The rules would have to mention the forbidden words, so
posting them on the Internet would violate those same rules.</p>
<p>
-Of course, I'm making an assumption about just what "indecent" means.
-I have to do this, because nobody knows for sure. The most obvious
-possible meaning is the meaning it has for television, so I'm using
-that as a tentative assumption. However, there is a good chance that
-our courts will reject that interpretation of the law as
-unconstitutional.</p>
+Of course, I'm making an assumption about just what
+“indecent” means. I have to do this, because nobody knows
+for sure. The most obvious possible meaning is the meaning it has for
+television, so I'm using that as a tentative assumption. However,
+there is a good chance that our courts will reject that interpretation
+of the law as unconstitutional.</p>
<p>
We can hope that the courts will recognize the Internet as a medium of
publication like books and magazines. If they do, they will entirely
-reject any law prohibiting "indecent" publications on the Internet.</p>
+reject any law prohibiting “indecent” publications on the
+Internet.</p>
<p>
What really worries me is that the courts might choose a muddled
-half-measure--by approving an interpretation of "indecent" that
-permits the doctor program or a statement of the decency rules, but
-prohibits some of the books that any child can browse through in the
-public library. Over the years, as the Internet replaces the public
-library, some of our freedom of speech will be lost.</p>
+half-measure—by approving an interpretation of
+“indecent” that permits the doctor program or a statement
+of the decency rules, but prohibits some of the books that any child
+can browse through in the public library. Over the years, as the
+Internet replaces the public library, some of our freedom of speech
+will be lost.</p>
<p>
Just a few weeks ago, another country imposed censorship on the
Internet. That was China. We don't think well of China in this
-country--its government doesn't respect basic freedoms. But how well
-does our government respect them? And do you care enough to preserve
-them here?</p>
+country—its government doesn't respect basic freedoms. But how
+well does our government respect them? And do you care enough to
+preserve them here?</p>
<p>
[This paragraph is obsolete:]
@@ -114,53 +94,15 @@
and political action recommendations. Censorship won in February, but
we can beat it in November.</p>
-<hr />
-<h4><a href="/philosophy/philosophy.html">Other Texts to Read</a></h4>
-<hr />
-
-<!-- All pages on the GNU web server should have the section about -->
-<!-- verbatim copying. Please do NOT remove this without talking -->
-<!-- with the webmasters first. -->
-<!-- Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the document -->
-<!-- and that it is like this "2001, 2002" not this "2001-2002." -->
-
-<div class="translations">
-<p><a id="translations"></a>
-<b>Translations of this page</b>:<br />
-
-<!-- Please keep this list alphabetical, and in the original -->
-<!-- language if possible, otherwise default to English -->
-<!-- If you do not have it English, please comment what the -->
-<!-- English is. If you add a new language here, please -->
-<!-- advise address@hidden and add it to -->
-<!-- - in /home/www/bin/nightly-vars either TAGSLANG or WEBLANG -->
-<!-- - in /home/www/html/server/standards/README.translations.html -->
-<!-- one of the lists under the section "Translations Underway" -->
-<!-- - if there is a translation team, you also have to add an alias -->
-<!-- to mail.gnu.org:/com/mailer/aliases -->
-<!-- Please also check you have the 2 letter language code right versus -->
-<!-- http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm -->
-
-[
- <a href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.html">English</a>
-| <a href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.fr.html">Français</a> <!--
French -->
-| <a href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.ja.html">日本語</a>
<!-- Japanese -->
-| <a href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.ko.html">한국어</a>
<!-- Korean -->
-| <a href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.pl.html">Polski</a> <!-- Polish -->
-| <a
href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.ru.html">Русский</a>
<!-- Russian -->
-]
-</p>
</div>
-<div class="copyright">
-<p>
-Return to the <a href="/home.html">GNU Project home page</a>.
-</p>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
<p>
Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
-There are also <a href="/home.html#ContactInfo">other ways to contact</a>
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
the FSF.
<br />
Please send broken links and other corrections (or suggestions) to
@@ -169,13 +111,13 @@
<p>
Please see the
-<a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+<a href="/server/standards/README.translations">Translations
README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting
translations of this article.
</p>
<p>
-Copyright 1996 Richard Stallman.
+Copyright © 1996 Richard Stallman
<br />
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is
permitted in any medium without royalty provided this notice is
@@ -185,10 +127,42 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2005/04/26 18:32:29 $ $Author: alex_muntada $
+$Date: 2007/04/01 16:40:39 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
+<div id="translations">
+<h3>Translations of this page:</h3>
+
+<!-- Please keep this list alphabetical. -->
+<!-- Comment what the language is for each type, i.e. de is Deutsch.-->
+<!-- If you add a new language here, please -->
+<!-- advise address@hidden and add it to -->
+<!-- - /home/www/bin/nightly-vars either TAGSLANG or WEBLANG -->
+<!-- - /home/www/html/server/standards/README.translations.html -->
+<!-- - one of the lists under the section "Translations Underway" -->
+<!-- - if there is a translation team, you also have to add an alias -->
+<!-- to mail.gnu.org:/com/mailer/aliases -->
+<!-- Please also check you have the 2 letter language code right versus -->
+<!-- <URL:http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm> -->
+<!-- Please use W3C normative character entities -->
+
+<ul class="translations-list">
+<!-- English -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.html">English</a> [en]</li>
+<!-- French -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.fr.html">Français</a> [fr]</li>
+<!-- Japanese -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.ja.html">日本語</a> [ja]</li>
+<!-- Korean -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.ko.html">한국어</a> [ko]</li>
+<!-- Polish -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.pl.html">Polski</a> [pl]</li>
+<!-- Russian -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.ru.html">Русский</a> [ru]</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
</body>
</html>
Index: philosophy.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/philosophy.html,v
retrieving revision 1.238
retrieving revision 1.239
diff -u -b -r1.238 -r1.239
--- philosophy.html 1 Apr 2007 12:18:44 -0000 1.238
+++ philosophy.html 1 Apr 2007 16:40:39 -0000 1.239
@@ -244,6 +244,10 @@
of Speech, Press, and Association</a>
on the Internet</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.html">Censoring My
+ Software</a>, by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard
+ Stallman</a></li>
+
<li><a href="/philosophy/patent-reform-is-not-enough.html">Patent Reform
Is Not Enough</a></li>
@@ -951,7 +955,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2007/04/01 12:18:44 $
+$Date: 2007/04/01 16:40:39 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
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