Putting the boot in.
Jacqui Smith’s heart must have beat a little faster this week, when news reached her of the advances in the science of Internet censorship made in Germany.
11 German detectives descended on the home of Theodor Reppe, in the name of ‘discovery of evidence of distribution of pornographic material’.
Without informing Theodor of his rights, they demanded the passwords to his web site, asked that the entire domain be disabled, and then made a false claim that he had agreed for all this to take place without witnesses.
Why, you may ask, should a purveyor of child pornography be treated any better? Why indeed.
Except that Theodor is not a purveyor of child pornography, he is the registered domain owner of wikileaks.de, the German equivalent of the well known wikeleaks.org – feared by governments across the world.
Wikileaks have recently published the list currently being used in trials of the “great Aussie firewall”. To the embarrassment of the Australian government, about half the links on the published list related to material other than child porn, and included online poker sites, fetish, satanic and Christian sites.
Not only is it now prohibited to look at certain sites in Australia, it is prohibited to know which sites are prohibited.
In Australia, during the last year, a tactic of those seeking to block the Internet was to insinuate that those who questioned such a block were soft on child porn and might have a pro-paedophile agenda.
Now that that slur has been rebutted, the next step may be to extend the definition of distribution of child porn: not merely hosting it or passing it to third parties; but merely informing other people of where it is accessible.
Telling you where you might go to find out where you might go to find out where you might go to find out where you might go……may yet see a jack-booted one kicking down my door. All in the name of protecting the kiddies of course, far be it from me to insinuate that this is a cover story to protect the government from citizens seeing anything like Dan Hannan’s video.
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March 27, 2009 at 7:30 pm -
The time is coming when we will have to blow these bastrads out of the water – again, all for the sake of the children…..
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March 27, 2009 at 9:06 pm -
They are definitely out to censor the internet ……….. The New World Order wishes to instill as much as fear as possible ………… because they know that prevention is cheaper than cure.
I would like to see the costs of a bunch of police going into somebody’s home or place of work. What is the average cost cost of a bunch of coppers poring over somebody’s personal emails and visited web addresses?
Given that coppers are notoriously un-pro-active these days …………. what if they find they have been given a particularly interesting job? They could obviously seriously milk the job at a tremendous cost to the tax-payer.
I personally know people who have done this in the past …………. So what are the safe-guards? The ones that I know are particularly adept at filling in time-sheets! And as for expenses and extra software and hardware! Let me just say that their own families have some very up-to-date equipment!
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March 27, 2009 at 11:01 pm -
I’m beginning to suspect that the spook-combo (MI5,6 special branch, CIA, etc etc) are responsible for some of the child porn and send it to servers such as Theodor’s so that they have an excuse to kick down his door.
Spyblog, a couple of days ago, ran a story about a chap who ran an anonymising service with similar results to Theodor’s. -
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July 29, 2009 at 5:21 pm -
check out common purpose it seems to fit//
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