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title: Taking a stand against right-extremist ideology
date: 2005-05-08 00:00:00
updated: 2019-12-26 15:40:58
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”.
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