hmm... fredy has shut down this link? > [10] http://vaud.init7.ch/
not working for me... -steven > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im > Auftrag von Felix Rauch > Gesendet: Samstag, 8. Februar 2003 13:24 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: [swinog] Draft contribution to EDRi-gram about i'net censorhip > in CH > > > Dear Swinog crew, > > I was asked by EDRi (European Digital Rights) to write a contribution > for the EDRi-gram. The contribution is about the recent happenings on > internet censorship in Switzerland. My draft is below, if you have any > comments, please send them to me or the list by sonday afternoon (I'll > have to submit it on sonday since I'm in vacation next week). > > Regards, > Felix > > > INTERNET CENSORSHIP MARCHING FORWARD IN SWITZERLAND > (contribution by Felix Rauch, SIUG) > > In Switzerland, beeing one of the oldest democracies, internet > censorship is gaining ground. Two recent events support this trend. > > In last december examining magistrate of the canton Vaud, Françoise > Dessaux, sent a disposal [1] to many Swiss internet service providers > (ISPs), asking to block access to the websites [2, 3, 4] and to modify > DNS servers so that "the name of the domain swiss-corruption.com > points to an empty page". A press release [5] published by the Swiss > Internet User Group (SIUG [6]) and Swiss Network operators Group > (Swinog [7]) doubt that the blocking of foreign internet content is a > legally valid procedure. The two groups also point out that internet > blocking measures are easily bypassed and that article 16 of the Swiss > constitution guarantees to every person "the right to receive > information freely, to gather it from generally accessible sources, > and to disseminate it." > > Most Swiss providers did at first not obey to the disposal and > appealed against it. The examining magistrate then ordered many > responsible persons of the ISPs to the court. Guido Honegger of Swiss > ISP green [8] still refuses to block the websites and is now facing an > ascertainment against his person because of disobedience. He wants to > increase predicatbility of legal decisions and plans to fight the > order in court. Other ISPs like e.g. Init7 [9] are redirecting traffic > to the incriminated sites to protest pages [10]. Despite all the legal > fights, the site are only with new addresses [11, 12]. > > Internet censorship to creep in with new law > > The Swiss federal office of justice [13] published a proposal for a > revision of the federal law on lotteries and betting. In article 50 of > the proposal, providers could be fined up to one year in prison or a > penalty of up to 1 Million Swiss francs (approx. EUR 660'000) for > "providing access to not allowed games according to this law". SIUG is > concerned that this proposal is only a first trial for much wider > censorship laws and will therefore submit a detailed answer against > this censorship article. > > > Links, references and further reading: > > [1] Disposal by the canton Vaud (unofficial copy, french) > http://www.nrg4u.com:80/abuse/canton-de-vaud.pdf > > [2] http://www.appel-au-peuple.org/ > > [3] http://de.geocities.com/justicecontrol/ > > [4] http://www.swiss-corruption.com/ > > [5] Press release by SIUG and Swinog (in german): > http://www.siug.ch/presse/Presse.20021213.txt > > [6] Swiss Internet User Group (SIUG) homepage: > http://www.siug.ch/ > > [7] Swiss Network Operators Group (Swinog) homepage: > http://www.swinog.ch/ > > [8] http://www.green.ch/ > > [9] http://www.init7.ch/ > > [10] http://vaud.init7.ch/ > > [11] http://www.c9c.net/swiss-corruption/info > > [12] http://www.freejustice.de/ > > [13] http://www.ofj.admin.ch/ > > [x] Heise News: Schweizer Richter verlangt Website-Sperrung von Providern > http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hob-12.12.02-000/ > > > -- > Felix Rauch, research assistant at laboratory for > computersystems, ETH Zuerich > http://www.nice.ch/~felix/ Member of Swiss Internet User > Group: www.siug.ch > This article contains my personal view only! Use of my addresses > for marketing > purposes is hereby strictly prohibited according to swiss privacy laws. > > > ---------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/ > ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
