Hi everyone, > we haven't received such a letter (yet). so i rather don't care what they say. > but even if we would receive such a letter, this might be a proposal 'empfehlung' > and not a 'must do'.
We've received this letter. It's definitely a "must do", not a "proposal". In french it says "Le juge [...] ordonne [...]". This means the judge *orders* something: it's not an option. It's not a matter of free interpretation of a law. If a judge orders something to a specific Swiss company you normally have to do it (or am I wrong?). Of course, the legal decision might be "morally wrong", but that doesn't mean we can just ignore it. What they want us to do is to block the following sites and their subdirectories on our proxies and/or DNS servers: - http://www.appel-au-peuple-org - http://de.geocities.com/justicecontrol - http://www.swiss-corruption.com If and only if the blocking does not disrupt web access to other pages hosted on the same servers ("pour autant que cette mesure ne touche que le site litigieux"). This means that the Geocities page can only be blocked on proxies, not on the DNS server. Providers without proxy simply cannot block this page. If we block these sites we're not doing anything against freedom of speech. This decision is based "sur plainte de Michel Tinguely contre Gerhard Ulrich [...] pour diffamation, calomnie, injure et tentative de contrainte". It's a single person which is being offended by these websites: it's not political censorship. Failure to block these sites will be punished according to article 292 of the swiss penal code, with fines or emprisonment. We want to avoid that I guess :) Regards Ing. Manuel Wenger Chief Technology Officer Ticinocom SA ___________________________________________________ Ticinocom SA - Via dei Pioppi 10 - 6616 Losone Tel 0844 007070 - Fax 0844 007071 http://www.ticino.com ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
