Posts tagged Finland
Periodical Political Post *38
Oct 23rd
- Anti-gay groups asked to prove how gay marriage threatens traditional unions
- Church of Sweden says yes to gay marriage meanwhile
- Europe paves way for Three-Strikes style ISP disconnection policy
- U.N. Human Rights Council endorses report of Israel’s war crimes
- US military data-mines America’s kids for war recruiting
- French soldiers killed after Italy bribed Taliban in Afghanistan
- Broadband internet for all citizens a legal right with new law in Finland
- US man made coffee in his own home while nude, facing 1 year prison
- Socialists and Greens best for business according to Swedish survey
- Leftist states of Latin America agree on new currency
- Verfassungsgericht behebt mal wieder Fehler der Politik: Diesmal Homoehe
- Auch deutscher Atommüll lagert tonnenweise in Russland
- UN zwingt Israel zur Untersuchung begangener Kriegsverbrechen
- FDP knickt ein, Union plant mehr Überwachung & Ausländerdatei
- Einigung über Internetzensur & VDS kein FDP-Erfolg
- CDU & FDP verharmlosen Nazigewalt und warum das so gefährlich ist
- 28.000 Betriebe verlieren Betriebsrat wenn FDP sich durchsetzt
- Richter: Forderung von FDP & Union nach härteren Jugendstrafen Populismus
- FDP & Union legalisieren Löhne 30% unter normalem Lohnniveau
- "Tricksen, tarnen, täuschen": FDP liebäugelt mit einem Schattenhaushalt
- Grüne lassen Linke Abgeordnete in Landtagen auspionieren
- Grünen Spitze kanzelt Parteijugend wegen Kritik an Jamaika-Koalition ab
- Grüne begrüßen das Mitführen von Maschinenpistolen von NRW-Polizisten
Break Free
Feb 1st
Many Countries (like Sweden, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, New Zealand, Brazil, Turkey and Germany) are using censor lists to keep you away from certain sites like some image boards (e.g. 12chan), file sharing sites (e.g. The Pirate Bay) or in some cases even whole communities like Blogspot, WordPress and YouTube.
It’s pretty easy to bypass these filters though. All you need to do is using a neutral DNS server. A DNS server maps the domain name you enter in your browser (like www.milkboys.org) to the IP of the site you want to enter (like 205.196.16.242). If a government tries to keep you away from a site they just keep a list of domain names and if you enter one of the domains on the list in you browser the local DNS server doesn’t resolve the name so you can’t get to the site.
But nobody can prevent you from using a DNS server outside of your country. OpenDNS for example. Just change the IP of your name server to OpenDNS (watch video below to see how) and enjoy your regained freedom.
Periodical Political Post *12
Jan 24th
- Russia keeps killing people who dare to stand up against their regime (Bush called that “managed democracy”)
- Guy makes website about Finnish Internet Censorship List = Guy gets on the Censorship List
- Vodafone’s child oorn filter blocks innocent Czech tech blogs
- Largest Danish Internet Provider blocks the Pirate Bay. I told you!
- At least some good news: Sweden to become seventh country to legalize Gay Marriage
The ugly Truth about Gay Marriage
- Die Linke will gleichgeschlechtlichen Ehepaaren endlich alle “Hetero-“Rechte zuerkennen.
(Das wollen sie schon länger aber hier wirds jendlich explizit. Das beste: nach derzeitigen Umfragen wird die nächste Regierung in Thüringen nicht ohne die Linke zu stande kommen. In anderen Bundesländern siehts auch gut aus.) - Bunestag erlaubt umfassende Überwachung von Internetusern durch die Provider
- Noch unschlüssig was ihr wählen sollt? Übersicht welche Partei welchen Polizeistaatgesetzen zugestimmt hat
- Wenn Demokratie funktionieren würde… Bundestagspetition für ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen
The Censored Net
Jan 7th
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).
[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
Milkboys in Music Videos *1
Sep 19th
Let’s get retro with Freestyler from the Boomfunk MC’s.
Best sold single of the year 2000 in Europe + cute boy ^^,
Jon
Sep 2nd
Part I in the series “milkboys readers are the hottest” ;o)
Thanks a lot for your photos Jon! Make more soon :D
(bonus photo in the comments)
Young Gods
Jun 8th
18-year-old Taavi, who never goes anywhere without his video camera, and his young and wealthy friends find themselves on the cusp of adulthood. After throwing a wild party at the mansion left to him by his deceased parents, Taavi shoots video of the party-goers in their various states of undress and drunken sexual congress. What begins as a prank spurs Taavi and his friends Jere, Sami, and Markus to form a club, the only requirement for admission being that each young man must bring a tape of his latest sexual conquest to every club meeting. This risqué game quickly degenerates into dangerous compulsion as relationships implode and the boys forsake their girlfriends in favor of prostitutes and "swingers". As currents of coercion and abuse enter the picture, each young man must ultimately confront his own morality in the viewfinder.
Young Gods is the ironically-titled film that examines the vapid world of mesmerizing images we live in. We experience this confusion through the eyes (and lenses) of four Finnish boys, all recent high-school graduates. Taavi has just inherited his deceased father’s mansion and wealth, but has blocked out the memory of his death, and moves through life at a distance, viewing everything possible through his camcorder’s viewfinder. Jere is emotionally dead. He has a girlfriend and finds comfort in sex, but is unable to open his heart. Sami, homely and overweight, has zero self-esteem. Markus is extremely immature, but otherwise well-intentioned.
The four make an odd pact to film their sexual conquests, and the four find themselves living in an even more illusory meta-world, as their desire to film sex takes precedence over their actual desires, and recording an event becomes secondary to experiencing life.
