[Forwarded with permission. --Declan] --- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 01:39:16 UT To: declanat_private Subject: Internet Censorship in Germany From: "Alvar Freude [ODEM-Team]" <teamat_private> Hello, here are some informations about internet censorhip in germany. If you have questions, see contact addresses below! Ciao Alvar C.H. Freude, Team ODEM.org Internet censorship in germany ============================== Real live demonstration and online petition against internet censorship http://www.odem.org/informationsfreiheit/en/ http://www.netzzensur.de/index_en.html The district government of Düsseldorf county, Northrhine-Westfalia in Germany, is forcing Internet Service Providers to block access to selected foreign Internet sites. The project was started with forbidding access to two right wing extremist sites hosted in the United States. Fighting right wing extremist ideologies reaches a broad consensus in Germany; however in this case it is used to gain acceptance for the establishment of a nationwide centralized filtering and blocking system. Future plans contain blocking of content to protect minors, copyrights and consumer rights, including search engines that fail accordance with corresponding national guidelines and laws. Together with corporate partners, Northrhine-Westfalia administration is developing a high capacity filtering system that is currently tested at the university of Dortmund. Intention is to create an architecture with centrally controlled blocking mechanisms that should be installed on gateway machines to the "foreign internet". The Chaos Computer Club and ODEM.org regard this as a severe threat to the citizens' right of informational freedom. Not to be able to get information about political activity from publicly available sources must be considered a societal backstep for democracy. A demonstration against this blocking plans will take place on the 6th of April on the streets of Düsseldorf. More information about this action can be found at http://www.netzzensur.de/index_en.html ODEM asks concerned users of the Internet to sign their declaration for the freedom of information. First signers already include Richard Stallman, Iac Clarke, journalist organizations like the "reporters without borders", scientists and politicians. http://www.odem.org/informationsfreiheit/en/ Contact persons: - Questions according internet censorship in germany in general: Alvar Freude, alvar@a-blast.org, http://alvar.a-blast.org/, Tel. ++49 (1 79) 13 46 47 1 - Questions according Chaos Computer Club (CCC): Andy Müller-Maguhn, andyat_private, http://www.ccc.de/, Tel. ++49 (30) 30 87 17 15 - Questions according to real live demonstration in Düsseldorf: Lars Weiler, pylonat_private, Tel. ++49 (1 71) 1 96 32 58 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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