Thus spake Mark Smith (mcs@pearlcrescent.com):
- Wording suggestion:
"This computer's internet connection is free of obstacles: [greenboldtext]My network operator does not threaten my person safety[/greenboldtext]
"This computer's Internet connection is [redboldtext]censored, filtered, or proxied[/redboldtext]
Thanks! Regarding Tom's suggestion to use colored text, we are not going to tackle that at this time because doing so will complicate localization. Also, Mike pointed out that in situations where physical harm is a real possibility, the person will be so censored that they will know to chose the Configure option.
I guess, to be fair, someone should double-check that my point above is enough to decide against adding a *full* sentence here (instead of a colorized fragment).
I think the main problem is that sentence fragment coloring is a big localization problem, like Mark said. If we want to add color/style changes to anything more than a single word, it needs to be at the full sentence level. I think that's Mark's main concern, and on reflection, it might actually be the biggest issue with this text, perhaps more so than my issue if we can find a middle ground for it.
So, if we can think of a way to add a full sentence to the "Configure" option that would help instruct a potential non-censored but still heavilly persecuted and surveilled userbase (One example: Citizen journalists reporting on the Mexican Drug war) to click Configure instead of "Connect to the public Tor network", *without* also freaking out everybody else who safely uses the public Tor network, then we have a solution.
Otherwise, I think it should be left as-is?