Seems a direct mimicry of Wikipedia's methods of expansion.
Thanks, Michael.
The point here is not so much anti-imperialism or coporate "bashing" (business term, meaning critique).
What we have here is a written prove how the religion of "free culture" (as promoted by evangelists such as Lessig and Ito) precisely works out. It is not that easy to ground one's "ideology criticism" with clear examples.
In this is it is Facebook, as you say, taking away jobs of translators that they should employ while moving into overseas markets and let the work do by clueless users who have no idea about the larger Economy of the Free.
Ciao, Geert
On 22 May 2009, at 7:56 AM, Michael Baron wrote:
This is quite interesting. Facebook can surely afford hiring some professional translators. The company is obviously very good at keeping its operational costs down :)
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