[ICANN-EU] Re: [icann-candidates]

[Ralf Wigand <rz45@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>]

> 1. Do you think there should be a general censorship in the www, filtering
> certain contents ?

no general censorship. generalism requires always automation of any kind,
and automatian can (and will) fail. just think of the breast-swimmers
newsgroup banned by the filter breast*
 
> 2. If so, isn`t the danger of censorship higher than any influence of
> extremist contents?

difficult. I don't see why the internet should provide a platform for some
extremist content. but not everything _you_ define as extremist content
_I_ would define so, too, and vice versa. I think it depends on the case,
and therefore it should not depend on a single person or an automatism.

> 3. Isn`t it sufficient, that the criminal law and terms of resposibility for
> web-contents of each country ensure that contents in the net follow a
> minimum standard of what we call civilization?

see top 2: not everything that is forbidden in country A is forbidden in
country B too. and tarting a discussion what the minimal standard of
civilisation really is, thats walking on thin ice. Not every country is
already at the point where they have web-content-laws. and the fact that
it is forbidden doesn't say that is is not happening.

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