China, England, Australien und Deutschland
Na? Was haben all diese Länder gemeinsam? Es ist erstaunlich, dass der politische Protest selbst beim Wallstreet Journal in den USA angekommen ist und dort wird Deutschland in einem Atemzug mit China bezüglich Zensurmaßnahmen genannt.
The Chinese government may be backing down from its plan to install new “filtering” software, Green Dam, on all Chinese computers. But it would be naïve to think that scrapping the Green Dam mandate means the end of headaches for computer- and device-makers world-wide. More and more governments — including democracies like Britain, Australia and Germany — are trying to control public behavior online, especially by exerting pressure on Internet service providers. Green Dam has only exposed the next frontier in these efforts: the personal computer.
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In Germany, Internet users and civil liberties groups are fighting proposed legislation mandating a national censorship system. The Bundestag votes today on a bill authorizing German police to establish and maintain a list of Web sites that Internet service providers would be required to block. In a petition against the bill, German civil liberties groups call it “untransparent and uncontrollable, since the ‘block lists’ cannot be inspected, nor are the criteria for putting a Web site on the list properly defined.” These concerns aren’t unfounded: Some German politicians have already suggested extending the block list to Islamist Web sites, video games and gambling Web sites, while book publishers have suggested it would also be nice to block file-sharing sites too.
Zensur bleibt nun mal Zensur – egal ob es die Chinesen machen oder unsere Regierung einführen will. Und vor einem Jahr noch haben sich diese Redenschwinger in der GroKo hingestellt und sich den Kampf gegen Zensur weltweit auf die Fahne geschrieben, aber im eigenen Land gilt ja so etwas nicht.
(Info via FixMBR)