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Date: 1998-12-18
Metternich Global: Zensur marschiert-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Metternich Global: Zensur marschiert Weltweit ist die Zensur im Internet auf dem Vormarsch, heisst es in der NY Times von heute. Die im Artikel angeführten Personen sind allesamt Mitglieder der Global Internet Liberty Campaign. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- PAMELA MENDELS December 18, 1998 Fifty years after the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with its guarantee of free expression for all, the world's newest form of mass communication is under attack around the globe from laws, policies and police actions seeking to restrict content. That's the bad news in a new report called Freedom of Expression on the Internet, released earlier this month by Human Rights Watch as part of the organization's annual chronicle of rights abuses around the world. ... "Nineteen ninety-eight can be characterized as (a time of) increasing censorship regulation -- and going beyond regulation to prosecution," said Jagdish J. Parikh, online research associate for Human Rights Watch and author of the Internet section of the report. ... Advocates of free expression on the Internet say they are concerned about developments in Western countries, too. ... And the European Union is examining proposals that would require Internet service providers to block "harmful speech," like sites promoting racism, or hold them accountable by law when they make such information available, said Barry S. Steinhardt, one of the founders of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign, an international organization pressing for free speech rights in cyberspace. ... Advocates of free expression worldwide also worry about how well software filters, the main method used to block access to objectionable content, are able to distinguish between unacceptable and legitimate material. Yaman Akdeniz, director of the British group Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties, said he is aware of at least one filtering system that blocks access to his group's own Web site, apparently because the words "pornography" and "child pornography" are often used in discussions of online policy issues. "Whether this is done deliberately or not, I see this as censorship of political speech," he said in an e-mail message. ... The service provider "risks search and seizure of his machines," said Rigo Wenning, a founder of the German Internet free speech group FITUG. "That would deliver him directly to bankruptcy. So what he does is, he removes all content that has the slightest doubt of being legal. Any critique, thus, would be suppressed automatically," Wenning said via e-mail. ... Parikh fears that this gives countries with less democratic traditions a handy justification for state Internet censorship. "If you can use filters at libraries, why not at the national level?" he asks. At the same time, Parikh says he is hopeful that attempts to reign in online speech worldwide will fail, because savvy users can find technological detours around filters, and the sheer volume of information on the network could ultimately inundate the most diligent corps of censors. In addition, many people are now awakening to the important information available to them on the Web and will somehow seek it out, he said. As evidence, Parikh pointed to the recent huge surge in visitors to the Human Rights Watch Web site from Malaysians apparently seeking an alternative source of information about the authoritarian leadership in their country. .... full text registrierungspflichtig http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/12/cyber/cyberlaw/18law.html -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 1998-12-18 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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