From c7c5e5deca749fca553f602ffa0dd1aeb9aeb781 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: vollkorn Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 09:00:13 +0000 Subject: committing page revision 3 --- updates/2005/unvereinbarkeitserklaerung.en.md | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+) create mode 100644 updates/2005/unvereinbarkeitserklaerung.en.md (limited to 'updates/2005/unvereinbarkeitserklaerung.en.md') diff --git a/updates/2005/unvereinbarkeitserklaerung.en.md b/updates/2005/unvereinbarkeitserklaerung.en.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..580c5dd9 --- /dev/null +++ b/updates/2005/unvereinbarkeitserklaerung.en.md @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +title: Taking a stand against right-extremist ideology +date: 2005-05-08 00:00:00 +updated: 2018-10-28 09:00:13 +author: vorstand +tags: update, hackerethik + +## Where we come from {#wherewecomefrom} + +The world has changed in the 23 years since the Chaos Computer Club +stepped forward to keep an eye on the impact of technological advances +on people and society. Technology and electronic communication are a +driving force in companies, government, and entertainment and enable a +lot of new developments in the first place. + +The creative-critical approach to computers is therefore no longer only +a topic for a few specialists without any connection to the actualities +of life of most people. As the public’s interest in hacking grows, the +demand on hackers to convey values and to influence society in their own +interest grows equally. + +## Hacking + +The CCC has always made clear that hacking obligates to conscientious +behavior. The claim on handling the data so obtained – protecting +private data, using public data – applies to everyone, even companies +and governments. + +But hacker ethics are more than an unbinding set of instructions for +moral behaviour. They require us to question the alleged reality and +mistrust authorities, because truth lies behind speciousness. Hackers +abstract from outward appearances, they tweak structures and processes +to actively form our society. + +In an almost naïve conviction we have so far assumed that the +confrontation with the machine alone suffices to free its users and in +the long run drive them to make our world a better place for all people. + +## The Club {#theclub} + +Openness has always been a principle of the Chaos Computer Club, which +is expressed in the fact that we have gladly accepted people with new +positions, as long as they have not come into conflict with our previous +positions. We have done well with this, because it has enriched the club +with new topics. Important topics like civil rights, the engagement with +free software and copyrights, or Blinkenlights became reality, which +extended the “Hackerverein” of the 80s. But openness is not +arbitrariness. Precisely because openness has turned out to be useful, +we must not forget the borders and our historical roots, especially at a +time in which nationalist content is increasingly pushing its way into +the centre of society and the centre is increasingly losing itself in +right-wing extremism, racist exclusion and social exploitation. + +## Technological Infatuation and May 8, 1945 {#techand1945} + +Sixty years ago – on May 8, 1945 – the Allies liberated Germany from +National Socialist rule. In order to stop the German murder machine, in +the end no other option remained other than the complete military +abolition. In particular in light of the fact that the logistics of the +Holocaust were driven forward by Hollerith punch card machines, trains +rolled on sophisticated railway networks into the extermination camps, +and Nazi engineers in love with technology tinkered with “retaliatory +weapons”, it is clear today that completely value-free discussions about +pure technology for its own sake are no longer possible without a look +at the social consequences. Hacking is about much more than soldering +irons and gcc, it is also about the dream of a better and free society. +The horizon of the hacker goes far beyond the edge of the screen. + +## The Statement {#thestatement} + +We are a galactic community of living beings, independent of age, +gender, descent and social status, open to all who have new ideas. But +those who approach us with ideas of racism, exclusion, and the +structural and physical violence associated with it have abandoned +dialogue and are beyond the limits of acceptance. Anyone who wants to +destroy coexistence in this society and work towards an alternative +society whose principles are based on chauvinism and nationalism is +working against the moral principles that unite us as a club. + +The CCC declares the representation of racism and the trivialization of +historical and current fascist violence to be incompatible with +membership. This includes in particular membership in or support of a +right-wing extremist or right-wing radical organization. By this we mean +not only numerous “free comradeships” but also groups such as the +“Deutsche Liga für Volk und Heimat”, DVU, FPÖ, the “Hilfsgemeinschaft +Nationaler Gefangener”, Lijst Pim Fortuyn (Partij LPF), NPD, ProKöln and +“Die Republikaner”. -- cgit v1.2.3