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Date: 1998-09-13
ITalien: Porno/Hypes & Kinderschutz-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- tut, hat Giancarlo Livraghi (ALCEI) analysiert. Wie alles Negative enthält auch diese Nachricht eine Spur von Trost: Dass nämlich Ignoranz & Heuchelei von Medien & Politik in puncto Kinder/missbrauch & Informationstechnologien nicht nur bei uns dahaom zuhause sind. -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- Giancarlo Livraghi <gian@gandalf.it> The Italian law on "protection of minors" is a rather unpleasent example of hypocritical legislation that doesn nothing to solve the problem but tries to appease public opinion by making penalties more severe and being vague in places, so that innocent pepole can be persecuted. In addition to that, it contanis specific references to the internet that are totally useless but of course tend to "criminalize" net use and encourage censorship. What's even worse is the behavior of media (especially press and television). There has been for years a frequent trickle of news (often false) relating the net to "pornography", "paedophilia" and oyjer "crimes", to the point that most people now (including some that are supposed to be militant in the defense of fredom of opinion) see that as "routine". The results of what is reported as "the biggest worldwide investigation ever on child pornography on the internet" are very modest indeed. Three people were arrested in Italy, and none of them are accused of ever having harmed a "minor". I know it's a worldwide problem... but believe, here it's worse. There were press reports recently (Septemmber 3 and following days) on something called "operation Cathedral" that allegedly was an international crackdown on "paedophiles" using the net to exchange pictures (involving police forces in California and in Austria, Belgium, Britain, France, Finland and Russia). As far as I can see, there wasn't much of a media echo on this in other countries, but in Italy it was monumental... front-page headlines in most newspapers, reports on peak-time TV, etc. To the point that the President of the Republic made a speech about it suggesting that people involved in such activities should have a stone tied to their necks and be trown into the depth of the ocean (using a quotation from the gospel - he is a militant catolic). The Pope hasn't come out (so far) on this specific subject, but has been talking about "the harms of techonology". A full-scale witchhount. It's not easy to get information about people being "victimised" in all sorts of places, as they are very scared; but we *know* that many *totally* innocent people (inculding several that had nothing to do with the internet) have been put into extremely embarassing siotuations, if not jailed; and some have been seriously harmed, lost their jobs, were exposed to hate in their neighborhoods, etc. - while none of the acrivity resulting from the law (or even before that from the "drive" abainst "paedopèhiles" etc) has done anyting about the child abuse that unfortunately exists in many places (including schools, churches and families). A lot of material has been produced on this subject, but it's in Italian. (If anyone reads Italian... see http://www.alcei.it http://gandalf.it/free/ and http://www.interlex.com). Is this a local problem? I don't know. It's been reported by local media that Wolfgang Schuessel, foreign minister of Austria, is planning to bring this subject to the General Assembly of the United Nations on Seoptember 17-18. I dont' have the legal competence to discuss the flaws of the law; I am leaving that to Alcei's new chairman, Andrea Monti <amonti@unich.it> who is a lawyer with specific competence in these matters. Of course he is reading a copy of this message. Giancarlo Livraghi <gian@gandalf.it> -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- q/depesche is powered by http://www.netsphere.at handicrafters of fine mailing-lists and more -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1998-09-13 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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