[pp.int.general] youth organisation founded in Germany and some more

[Helmut Pozimski]

Seems no one found the time to inform you yet. We successfully founded the 
youth organization of the pirates in Germany  (name: "junge Piraten" which 
means "young pirates") yesterday in Wiesbaden. There were 12 founding members 
and some guests at the assembly but more people are hopefully going to join 
us soon. We are now going to establish an organizational structure and begin 
our political work. 

But of course there is always also bad news. On Friday, five of the big ISPs 
in Germany signed a contract with the federal government to block access to 
sites which contain child porn. This means that these ISPs are now obligated 
to block access to sites based on a secret list created by the BKA. 
(Bundeskriminalamt, more or less the German FBI) This is the first time the 
internet is being censored in Germany on such a large scale. Now there is the 
plan to create a law to force the other ISPs to do the same. Some politicians 
already stated earlier that they want to extend the censorship to sites with 
games of chance, violent games and more things. Up to now, the access will be 
blocked by manipulating the DNS-servers of the ISPs which can easily be 
circumvented. The discussion leading to these events was filled with 
hostilities, lies and more government propaganda. There were approximately 
250 people from different groups protesting in front of the government press 
center when the contracts were signed with the result that the responsible 
minister entered the building through the back door. 

regards
Helmut
deputy chairman of junge Piraten

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