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Teaser trailer of Kiddiepunk’s upcoming feature God Land. I’m frickin excited about this film.

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Photos from the film The God Land by Aspen Michael Taylor.
You’ll find more stunning art at his blog and website.
Thanks to Dennis Cooper for the hint!

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Wikileaks has released the secret Internet censorship list for Denmark. The list contains 3863 sites blocked by Danish ISPs participating in Denmark’s censorship scheme as of February 2008. Danish ISPs "volunteer" to censor their users rather than face legislation and the top three ISPs are participants. The system can be used to censor anything, but is meant to be for child pornography sites found by the Danish police and the Danish "Save the Children" group. The list is generated without judicial or public oversight and is kept secret by the ISPs using it. Unaccountability is intrinsic to such a secret censorship system. List like this also are in use in Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and Thailand and are planned for several other countries including Germany.

If you (dare to) click through the list you will realize that nearly all of the banned sites are legal, only a ridiculous small number of them are actually showing pictures which could be considered as child pornography. The Finnish list is pretty much the same as in Denmark and someone did the work of checking all sites for their actual content. Here are the results:

TYPE OF SITE

LEGALITY

NUMBER ( RATIO)

completely irrelevant

LEGAL

9 (<1%)

nothing to do with child porn

LEGAL

879 (84%)

legal/clothed child models

LEGAL

46 (4-5%)

small portion of  questionable content

HARD TO DEFINE

28 (2-3%)

contains child pornography

ILLIEGAL

9 (<1%)

site is dead or not reachable

X

76 (7-8%)

So: Less than 1% (!) of the sites on the list are containing child porn while nearly 25% are legal gay sites! And that’s where it gets dangerous: nobody can control the content of these censor list. Today there are banning legal gay sites, tomorrow they might ban sites of uncomfortable political groups (not so unrealistic since countries like Australia and New Zealand are already using anti-terror laws to spy on anti-war protestors and animal right groups).

'cause there is none

[Found at DeviantArt]

German: Einen Deutschen Artikel zum Thema gibt’s bei Schutzalter, der Gründer von Wikileaks hat außerdem auf dem 25C3 einen Vortrag gehalten den man hoffentlich bald runterladen kann. Ich poste den Link in den Kommentaren sobald das Video online ist.

Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing, and pictures and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship. – German Basic Law, Article 5

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Gay marriage is a question of love

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Learning by doing… ;o)

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I’ll be honest with you: I can’t stand casting shows. I can’t stand TV at all. I don’t even have one. But I got a lot of mails recently about a guy in one of the “Idol” oder “Superstar” shows and I have to admit: A few of them a bloody cute ;) So let’s get straight to the point here. I picked a few boys out of the thousands of videos at YouTube and I want you to decide who is the best, the cutest, the Milk Star 2008 ;o)

Watch the videos and cast your vote below. The poll is open ‘till Halloween. Have fun!

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Contender 1: Johan Palm (Sweden)

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Contender 2: Daniel Pirie (England)

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Contender 3: Tom Williams (Australia)

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Contender 4: Liam Styles Chang (Canada)

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Contender 5: Danny Noriega (USA)

 

 

{democracy:10}

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