Dear friends, I wanted to post something on Facebook. It was regarding the shutdown of a popular ebook sharing website library.nu. And I was greeted with an error message saying I am not allowed to post anything about library.nu.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/333028_10150695760555259_725015258_11676478_20293833_o.jpg What do people in the Free Software community think about it. If Facebook is restricting my freedom of speech, should I still be using it? Can I start using diaspora instead of Facebook, but there also these policies may come into effect at a later stage. Now if I completely stop using Facebook, then I will be disconnected from the virtual world, as right now I am not living in a "real world" (detached from real world connections), as I am in a institute pursuing my higher studies. About library.nu, I am not saying that I should be given all the content for free, but sometimes there are very few copies in our institute library, and these books are really costly for an Indian student(I am not sure about a foreign student) to afford, it costs between 3500 to 12000 INR and more. And they don't have Indian edition for most of the titles (except certain undergraduate text books). I wanted to invite your attention to the following problems, 1. Usage of social networking sites and restrictions imposed by them, from a Free Software/Free knowledge proponents point of view. 2. Stop using Facebook or other social networking site, but am I not separating myself from the virtual community. 3. Can you suggest some alternatives for Facebook and other social networking sites, may be diaspora, but won't these restrictions come into diaspora at a later stage. What more can be done for knowledge sharing? May be something like a campaign! -- Anoop Jacob Thomas -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
