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General => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Tanja on 2009-06-14, 02:20:28 AM
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http://piratenpartei-bayern.de/Signing_the_e-petition_for_Non-Germans (http://piratenpartei-bayern.de/Signing_the_e-petition_for_Non-Germans)
You might have heard about the German federal government planing to establish a censorship system for the internet. Superficially speaking, they tell you it is to fight child pornography, but they are already thinking out loud about expanding this instruments. Sites about Ego-Shooters have already been announced to be the next target. File sharing sites will surely follow.
A lot of people stood up against it, by signing a petition to the German Parliament ("Deutscher Bundestag"). The right to sign a petition is granted to everyone by our constitution. This means there is no restriction to age, citizenship or residence. So even you people out there in the other countries can sign it, if you want to show, that you do not want a democratic state to employ instruments of censorship. Sadly it's not that easy, since the e-petition-sytem ist only in German.
But please visit the website linked above, for there is more information in English, the text of the petition AND a video showing you how to go through the german procedure to sign the petition!
AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD AS FAST AS YOU CAN because you have only time to sign until 16.06.09!
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Replace all instances of "Germany" with "Australia" and the information remains factual.
f*** censorship, *signs*
http://nocleanfeed.com
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I'll do my best to help out.