Internet blacklist bill

[Nils Kassube]

Michael Haney wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Robert Holtzman wrote:
> >> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:21:08PM +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> >> > Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
> >> > > Then,
> >> > > please forward this email to your friends.
> >> > 
> >> > Please don't send chain letters about your local issues to
> >> > international mailing lists. Thanks.
> >> 
> >> Do you think this doesn't have international implications?
> > 
> > No, it doesn't. It is about a campaigne to sign a petition "to your
> > local chamber". To me that is obviously for U.S. citicens only. The
> > bill mentioned in the mail may have international implications,
> > but the purpose of that mail is not to tell people abroad about
> > the bill or those international implications. It is a chain letter
> > instead which is as valuable as spam. Now, if you have some real
> > information about that bill, it might be interesting even for
> > people on the other side of the pond. And no, links in chain
> > letters don't count as real information IMHO.
> 
> You're bitching just to bitch.

IOW you are supporting chain letters?

> If there were a similar issue going
> on in your country you'd be posting it here too so STFU.

Well, if it was a local German or European issue I wouldn't post it 
here. Unless I could also point to something which might be interesting 
worldwide.

> This is a big deal.  Laws like this can and have been abused by other
> countries.  They say its to block stuff like child porn but they'll
> also block sites that express opposing political views.  This doesn't
> just happen in oppressive regimes like Iran, but in democratic
> countries that are or are trying to filter the Internet.

Yep, that's how censorship laws are made in Germany as well. And if the 
German law makers don't succeed they try to make it a EU law which would 
force Germany to adopt it - that's how it always worked. But campaignes 
to take influence on these laws are still a local German or European 
issue and wouldn't belong on this list IMHO.


Nils