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

[Nicolas Sahlqvist]

Anton,

There are such blocklists in Sweden that both Piratpartiet and TPB got
blocked in the past and still PP.se did not do a campaign to address
this in a effective way, this is sort of strange considering other
countries such as neighboring Finland acted in the way you describe.

BTW: In Demnark these blocklists are currently misused into blocking TPB..

I hope more PirateParties will act soon to protest against this kind
of censorship on Internet.


- Nicolas


On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Anton Tamminen
<anton.tamminen at piraattipuolue.fi> wrote:
> Helmut Pozimski wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> This is pretty much exactly what happened in Finland a few years ago, which
> culminated in a blog (sensuuri.info) (lit. censorship.info) criticizing the
> censorship being censored in early 2007 following the site admin published a
> list of censored sites he had figured out by using a web spider. This
> spawned outrage in the Internet crowd and there was a large demonstration
> (in Finnish scale) (in the organization of which I was involved,) against
> the censorship. Activists and researchers on many fronts have essentially
> been successful in turning the web censorship system in place into something
> few politicians any longer dare to endorse publicly.
>
> I reviewed some of the list material at random( some reporting at
> http://public.freenerd.org/pub/docs/lapsiporno/ ), and found that about
> 80-95% of the sites censored contained either legal "teen" or gay
> pornography or had no pornographic content whatsoever. In approximately 5%
> there were potential depictions of underage subjects, but few of these sites
> were actual porn sites, but instead were computer generated "circle jerk"
> thumbnail gallery posts (sites that exist merely for the purpose of
> collecting ad revenue through links to other sites, that in turn do the
> same).
>
> -Dragu
>
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