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Date: 2001-04-01
US: Protest/tag gegen Filter/zwang-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Union und andere haben zu landesweiten Real-Life Protesten gegen den Filterzwang in Schulen und Bibliotheken für den 20. April aufgerufen. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- ALERT: EFF Calls for CHIPA Censorware Law Protests Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Advisory, April 2, 2001 Call to Action for Protests at FCC Offices, Libraries, and Blocking Companies April 2, 2001 -- The Electronic Frontier Foundation today issued a call to action for nationwide protests on Friday, April 20, 2001, opposing implementation of Congressionally- mandated Internet blocking in schools and libraries. The protests will take place at Federal Communications Commission offices, other federal offices, libraries, and Internet blocking companies, as well as in "blackouts" of websites in support of the protest. Local organizers interested in protesting Internet blocking are invited to contact EFF to co-sponsor nonviolent protests, to obtain an Internet blocking protest kit, and for help in publicizing the protests. "The government-mandated requirement for Internet blocking in schools and libraries violates the free expression rights of American, adults and minors alike," explained Will Doherty, EFF Online Activist. "We must protest Congressionally- mandated Internet blocking because it censors Constitutionally-protected materials, stunts the intellectual growth of American children, and weighs unfairly on disadvantaged and 'controversial' communities." Internet blocking technologies underblock what they are supposed to block and overblock what they are not supposed to block. They rely on subjective control from software product companies many of whom exhibit clear political and religious biases, rather than relying on local communities to decide for themselves. The products are error-prone, vulnerable, problematic, and unfairly discriminatory, denying access to constitutionally protected and educationally important materials that schools and libraries would otherwise provide. Government-mandated censorship does not solve problems better handled through local decision making and educational efforts. Some protests will take place at offices of the Federal Communications Commission because it is the agency tasked by Congress with enforcement of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CHIPA a.k.a. CIPA) blocking law. EFF, along with co-sponsors such as the Online Policy Group ( http://www.onlinepolicy.org ), called the protests to demonstrate the widespread public opposition to use of Internet blocking in schools and libraries. The San Francisco Bay Area protest will take place at 1200 noon on Friday, April 20, in front of the FCC office at 5653 Stoneridge Drive, Suite 105, Pleasanton, California 94588 (accessible by Dublin/Pleasanton BART). More information on the Internet blocking protests will be available on the EFF website at: http://www.eff.org/br/br1.html The Electronic Frontier Foundation ( http://www.eff.org ) is the leading civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the information society. EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the most-linked-to websites in the world. EFF & ACLU Take on Library Internet Blocking Law in Court Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release, April 2, 2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, April 2, 2001 EFF & ACLU Take on Library Internet Blocking Law in Court Contacts: Lee Tien, Senior Staff Attorney, tien@eff.org, 415- 436-9333 x102 Will Doherty, Online Activist / Media Relations, wild@eff.org, 415-436-9333 On March 20, 2001, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) joined the ACLU and other organizations in challenging new federal law requiring Internet blocking in schools and libraries participating in certain federal programs. Framed on free speech grounds, the lawsuit seeks to prevent Congress from requiring libraries to censor constitutionally protected speech under the Children's Internet Protection Act (CHIPA). EFF Senior Staff Attorney and CHIPA case co-counsel Lee Tien said, "EFF believes that Internet blocking in libraries violates the First Amendment not only by unnecessarily restricting the rights of adult library patrons, but also by depriving child library patrons of online access to information that they need to be fully informed citizens." Tien noted that U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner recently warned of "the danger of allowing government to control the access of children to information and opinion. Now that eighteen-year- olds have the right to vote, it is obvious that they must be allowed the freedom to form their political views on the basis of uncensored speech before they turn eighteen, so that their minds are not a blank when they first exercise the franchise." In addition to library patrons, the litigation also broadly addresses the rights of librarians and website owners who will be adversely affected by the law, including public libraries from Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine; Congressional candidates whose websites were blocked; PlanetOut.com, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community site; and the Planned Parenthood Federation. EFF's participation in this case also reflects its members' commitment to free speech; James Geringer, one of the individual library patron plaintiffs, is an EFF member. The legal challenge was filed at the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, which previously ruled on the Communications Decency Act and the Child Online Protection Act. Participants in the litigation include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the law firm Proskauer Rose, and Tom Sponsler, an attorney from Multnomah County, Oregon. The American Library Association (ALA), along with a number of local library associations, also filed a legal challenge to CHIPA on March 20, 2001, in the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. Each case challenges both CHIPA itself, and the closely related (and strangely named) Neighborhood Chldren's Internet Protection Act (NCIPA), passed as part of the same legislative package. More information on the ACLU case is available on the EFF website at: http://eff.org/Cases/Multnomah_Library_v_US/20010320_aclu _chipa_suit_pr.html More information on the ALA case is available on the EFF website at: http://eff.org/Cases/ALA_v_US/20010320_ala_cipa_suit_pr.ht ml The Electronic Frontier Foundation ( http://www.eff.org ) is the leading civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the information society. EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the most-linked-to websites in the world. ... Source http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector/current.html -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 2001-04-01 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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