[FYI] (Fwd) FC: German ISPs may block porn, infringing pages, search engines...

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 01:39:16 UT
To: declan@wired.com
Subject: Internet Censorship in Germany
From: "Alvar Freude [ODEM-Team]" <team@odem.org>

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, andy@ccc.de, http://www.ccc.de/,
   Tel. ++49 (30) 30 87 17 15

- Questions according to real live demonstration in
   Düsseldorf:
   Lars Weiler, pylon@duesseldorf.ccc.de,
   Tel. ++49 (1 71) 1 96 32 58




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