Google's campaign for a free and open internet
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Re: Google's campaign for a free and open internet
#2I like the way the ITU handshaking graphic is casting a shadow over top of the world.
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#3Most shallow comment... but what's the font they're using for freeandopen ?
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#4Most shallow comment... but what's the font they're using for freeandopen ?
'Open sans' apparently. http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Open+Sans
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#5Great site (and I agree with the cause), but it's pretty light on the actual info and analysis side of things. You need a good, clear hook to get people invested enough to stick around the site, granted, but there should be a page on the site with a lot more information for people that want it. Otherwise it's (partly) reducing an attempt to educate the public to asking people to sign a petition that says "evil shadowy government conspiracies to censor the web are bad".
That's super, but it's pretty obvious (I hope...) to most people that there has to be more subtlety to the situation than that, which risks alienating potential supporters, or at least gets some people saying, "well I want to find out more before I sign" and then they never come back.
On the "what's at stake" page, at the very bottom, there is a link to this related site:
which seems good to my eyes and has a little more information, but, more importantly, offers a list of links to major publications that have covered the issue. With those, you can pick one you might trust and learn more, if you want to. I'm not sure how closely related that site is to Google, but one obvious thing that could be added to this site is a "What is the ITU" tab in the site navigation, which could consist of that exact page.
(I'm not saying the link should be replaced. It's notable on HN that google is doing this, I just wish google's site had more information, or at least more prominent sources for more information, for those who are curious)
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#7Pretty surprised the site looks so terrible on my phone.
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#8Pretty surprised the site looks so terrible on my phone.
Wow. Some web designer didn't try resizing their browser when they designed this.
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#9Pretty surprised the site looks so terrible on my phone.
debug CSS and JS, then post a GreaseMonkey script to fix it. #freeandopen
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#10Signed up, power to the free people.