[brlug-general] the short answer.

[Dustin Puryear]

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Fernando Vilas wrote:
> On Saturday 22 September 2007 09:32:34 Chopin Cusachs wrote:
>> At 04:30 PM 9/21/07, Will Hill  wrote:
>>> It's what the user thinks is spam that matters, not you or me.  A spam
>>> filter that the user can not override is not a spam filter, it's a
>>> censor.
>> Seems there are concerns in this area all around
>> the world.  I received this today.  It's not the
>> first from the sender, from Sueca, who objects to
>> the regional government imposing Spanish
>> instead of Valenciano (which is mutually
>> intelligible with Catalan) in his area.  I quote only the
>> first two paragraphs.  TV3 is from Barcelona,
>> uses Catalan.  In Valencia, paella is as sacred
>> as jambalaya in ours, which may be a descendant of it.
>>
> 
> [snip article in catalan]
> 
> For those on the list who don't understand Catalan, I found an automatic 
> translator into Spanish, and I'm posting my translation of that into English 
> below.
> 
> **************
> Youths From Sueca Defend TV3 in a challenge from Channel  9
> 
> Good morning, y'all already know that this past Sunday, the latest attempt 
> against freedom of expression of thought was committed against our people.  
> This is the film of the facts.
> 
> This past Sunday, Sept 16, 2007, there was a celebration for the presentation 
> of prizes from the 47th International Competition of Valencian Cooking in 
> Sueca.  Coinciding with the live feed from Channel 9, three youths from this 
> area, Miquel Blasco, Mireia Castelló, and Jordi Manyes showed their 
> disapproval of the attempt of the Valencian government to censor the 
> broadcasts of TV3 to the Valencian country, exhibiting small posters 
> scribbled with an ink pen just behind the presenter, where it could be seen.  
> The posters read "I know TV3" and "We love TV3".  Here, y'all can see the 
> video of what happened, streaming from Channel 9.
> ***********
> 
> And some background on why this is important.  When Franco came to power at 
> the end of the Spanish Civil War, he mandated that Spanish be the only 
> language spoken in Spain, where many regions had their own unique languages.  
> When he died, and Spain became a constitutional monarchy, their constitution 
> says that Spanish as well as regional languages like Catalan, Gallego, Basque 
> (Euskera), etc. are official languages and acceptable for business.  The 
> people in these regions are proud of their local languages and see attempts 
> to prohibit their use as racist and they stir up bad memories for those that 
> lived under Franco's rule.
> 
> I would count what the author, Sueca, is describing as at least as important 
> in terms of censorship as Yahoo et. al. censoring the TruthNow emails for 
> political reasons.
> 
> I'll stop now, b/c anything else I have to say on this topic would get me 
> banished to the -politics list, which is where it rightly belongs.
> 
> 
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