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I really like this spot, it so clearly outlines what us pirates are fighting for: http://www.rettedeinefreiheit.de/
FLASH TRAFFIC
Us Germans are the most crazy people in the world - I am proud of that! - and currently we are proving it again.
We recently elected a new parliament after a pretty weird campaign. Actually, there was not much campaigning to speak of, but some subjects played a major role all the time.
The BEI was one of these subjects.
In the recent US campaign where Obama used the Internet for winning votes; it seems his staff understood the Net and used it.
Over here, the larger parties do not understand Internet at all. They are scared of this fact and of everybody who does have at least a microgram of clue about all things Net. Consequently, the Internet plays a major role in campaigning.
Basically, many "leading" politicians here envy the Chinese government and Mahmud Ahmadinedschad because those so efficiently deal with the Big Evil Internet.
Envy causes action of course.
The evil Internet must be cleansed.
And they have a Cunning Plan (TM), very cuning and much like the plans in Black Adder.
Like it is with the Cunning Plans, they tend to fail sometimes.
So did this one: the law designed to place a STOP sign in front of Websites allegedly distributing child porn, was not enacted and probably never will. All the major protagonists are pulling back at flank speed.
Some attribute this to the sucess of the german wing of the Pirate Party; I certainly do.
We got 2% of the votes in the last nationwide elections - which may sound not a lot but certainly did have an effect.
The plan to implement a nationwide DNS-falsification system failed, so Stoppschilder und Umgehungen may seem outdated.
But the Internet is still out there. And still not under control.
And "the public" must be protected against Evil Hackers, which by common definition of german officials is "everyone with two micrograms of Clue", child porn and other gruesome stuff like criticism against the government.
So we are entering round two at the moment.
Actually, this is all old news, I already spoke about the BEI-Effect and intentions to "filter" (that is the common euphemism for censorship around here) the Internet a decade ago.
But no nonsense is nonsensical enough not to be dug out again.
The current reenactment of the tragedy "the taming of the BEI" uses the good old "everybody likes children" meme.
Children must be protected against pretty much everything, it seems. Childrens strollers look more an more like military vehicles, and of course there is evil out there on the Internet.
So - yes, I am serious and not kidding you readers from non-Germany! - there is discussion to enforce the broadcast laws on the Internet: anything harmful must not be "broadcast" before 10pm (this includes impressions of a female upper body without clothing) and if there is violence or full nudidity, then not before midnight.
And everything not certified by the proper authorities obviously falls into the "not before midnight" category.
You would think that the VCR or the cheap-as-dirt-VCR would have culled this notion that children can be protected from female breasts by time limits. Far from it, it seems.
Yes, children must be protected.
But obviously they must be protected from the over-zealous german burocracy and from the Internet-Must-Be-Censored class of politicians.
Some reading tips (german, I am afraid):
http://ak-zensur.de/2010/01/jmstv-stellungnahme.html http://blog.odem.org/2010/01/12/Arbeitsentwurf-JMStV--Stand-2009-12-07.pdf http://ak-zensur.de/2010/01/25/jmstv-stellungnahme-ak-zensur-januar-2010.pdf http://blog.koehntopp.de/archives/2575-Jugendschutzfilter-saugen-und-dafuer-gibt-es-einen-Grund.html http://www.eco.de/dokumente/20100120-Stellungnahme_eco_Novellierung_JMStV.pdf http://blog.1und1.de/2010/01/22/das_ende_der_freien_kommunikation_im_internet/
This is a private Website.
It mixes some completely private stuff, some stuff I share with a select group of people and some public content.
The public section is German for a very simple reason. It is derived mostly from speeches I gave in Germany.
I am dealing with the Internet, its technology and legal aspects. I think this makes for a very interesting combination because there is a lot of misunderstanding, intentional misinterpretation and misconceptions about what "the Internet" is, what it does and what it can do, and also about who the players are, the people that make the various things happen that in the end contribute to the phenomenon we perceive nad call "the Internet".
Recently, the focus of my life has changed a little.
The Random Ramblings section is one result of that. I wonder if it is possible for that to evolve into a blog or similar. Only time will tell.
If you would like to contact the author, send email to hase at hase dot net - and hope for Thunderbirds spam filter not to eat it.
This site looks like a Wiki, does it?
The site actually uses pmwiki as its technical base, but it is not a Wiki in the common sense: nobody but me changes the content.
responsible for the content (or lack thereof) of this site:
Hartmut Semken
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Some judge in Hamburg showed his complete ignorance towards the nature of Hyperlinks and the Web in general by assuming that the person placing a hyperlink pointing to somebody elses opinion implicitely agrees with that opinion.
That is of course completely wrong.
Just like the author of this websites contents is solely responsible for his words, every other author of texts published by means of the Web or some other application using the IP transport network we call the Internet is responsible for his expressed opinion alone.
