Governed by Laymen
April 22nd, 2009 Michael Schwarz and categorized as News, Politics, Stupidity, This Humanity has no Future[via Spreeblick]
Today, the German federal cabinet passed a new law to filter websites based on a secret list compiled by the Federal Criminal Police Office. The Federal Ministry of Family Affairs communicates the law as a remedy for the prevention of child pornography. While we strongly support any attempt to stop the abuse of humans and children in particular, we doubt that this is the real reason for the law.
For months, experts of all fields have impeached the facts and figures that were communicated by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs as well as the technical implementation of the filtering process. We mistrust the planned non-transparent process, we regard it as ineffective and amateurish and we believe it is counterproductive and a possible threat to democracy.
Since illegal sites on a list must be known beforehand, we urge the government to shut those sites down and prosecute the operators of those sites.
In times of a nationwide election campaign, we regard political populism as highly inappropriate when it should be about the fight against the abuse of minors.
Who would have thought that all these Science-Fiction movies about a total-control-government would some day become true. It’s sad, very sad that Germany is turning more and more into a state of total control. It’s almost like China and Great Britain combined.
Shivers me, it really does.
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The whole idea is clearly futile and I don’t think it will last very long before they have to give it up due to ineffectiveness and political and public resistance.
It’s not even an effective method of censorship as a) the websites are still accessible and b) … uhm, too obvious I know, but … censorship is forbidden, remember? Nooo, they abused their power and blocked my website and now I have to prove that my website was NOT a child porn circle, tough tough tough.
…state of total control, marvelous.
That’s like saying that dropping two piles of sand in a forrest (without even touching the trees) is turning it ‘more and more’ into a desert – Technically true. Actually silly.