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There's no censorship in free democratic states?

The Federal Republic of Germany begins to restrict information access for its citizens (again) - in the uttermost dubious and ineffective way. Due consistent lack of technical knowledge and unnatural high resistance against arguments freedom of speech is about to cease to exist. Within the borders where some time ago poets, thinkers and libertines had a right to simply express themselves, those troublemakers nowadays are to be silenced.


What fundamentally changed is the culture and the way it propagates: the invention of priceless digital text and speech allows a mass of every-day people to publish. Every Joe Sixpack can have a Blog since the Web 2.0 simplifications. Every blue-collar worker, or academic, or any other citizen. It reached everybody and the danger grew: projects managed to make information and knowledge free.

And while finally the information's age arrived into our time it became clear that knowledge in everybody's hands and minds is a potential thread to the order and structure of nowadays state, where rulers have to justify their decisions.

You make the state! Or the state makes you...

While focusing child-pornography bringing up new restrictions seems to be almost too easy here. It's abject and an emotional topic. I'm with every effort to do something against it. Thing is: nobody in politics is.


The spurious argument of child pornography is populistic: who can block out an approach to prevent children from being raped? Even if it's not effective: today's mass-media culture lets no space for arguments. Facts are useless in an emotional debate about children and rapists. Even asking the question whether forbidding information-access is constitutional seems to be an affront. Because we're talking about children. - Are we?


We are in no way talking about children. Nobody does. Children are being raped in our society (too often) because people want to look away. There's some consciousness and awareness today, especially in the kindergarden and schools. And we really have to thank programs and people in these institutions to make parents - or even victims - aware of the problem because this very often does a lot to help and improve the situation. It even prevents I guess. Something censorship cannot accomplish.

What politics in fact establishes is a merchant-based censoring-program. It soonest will get extended to focus everything that even looks illegal. There's nothing legitimate here: First of all this censoring system only can work with sites whose origin is directly here in Germany. There's a responsible site-owner. And in these particular cases this person hosts highly illegal content. - The new idea of internet-access-blocking is in no way dealing with this "responsible site owner" who hosts child-pornography. Sounds a little like technical make-up: because you can find and punish those people easily. Takes the police a minute. But no interest here, right?

Doing something real obviously is not an ambition. That's very sad to say: it's a lie. It's not about children. It's about indirectly controlling adults. A filthy lie riding on a wave of emotions at the cost of real victims.

You are an instrument now

Instrumentalization of people works. An censored and indirectly controlled crowd is predictable and cheap. So while many of the rebellious youngsters are surfing the web to Wikileaks and are taking a look at the lists from Scandinavia and China, a new generation's conflict arises: what exactly is this internet? A question politicians are unable to answer for now. But it seems their advising lobbyists are; being the puppet masters of change for generations.


Effectively I wish to be able to link to many sources. But I'd come to jail. Linking to Wikileaks could passively support child-pornography. At least that how several actions against journalists and bloggers were justified. I link to articles about protest, or a list of censoring providers (if you don't understand the sign, click this please.).

I'm uncensored for now because my ISP (manitu) will not censor anything until there's a law, that is approved by the highest court. But I'm a lucky one. Censoring will work based on DNS. Now... you may know as good as I do that DNS is in no way central... but let's forget this. This is not about DNS, technique or the implementations. It's about how we're able to create our information age: free or indirectly controlled. Because the mass of people will always just realize what's easy to get.

Have fun,
wishi