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1 | title: Taking a stand against right-extremist ideology | ||
2 | date: 2005-05-08 00:00:00 | ||
3 | updated: 2018-10-28 09:00:13 | ||
4 | author: vorstand | ||
5 | tags: update, hackerethik | ||
6 | |||
7 | ## Where we come from {#wherewecomefrom} | ||
8 | |||
9 | The world has changed in the 23 years since the Chaos Computer Club | ||
10 | stepped forward to keep an eye on the impact of technological advances | ||
11 | on people and society. Technology and electronic communication are a | ||
12 | driving force in companies, government, and entertainment and enable a | ||
13 | lot of new developments in the first place. | ||
14 | |||
15 | The creative-critical approach to computers is therefore no longer only | ||
16 | a topic for a few specialists without any connection to the actualities | ||
17 | of life of most people. As the public’s interest in hacking grows, the | ||
18 | demand on hackers to convey values and to influence society in their own | ||
19 | interest grows equally. | ||
20 | |||
21 | ## Hacking | ||
22 | |||
23 | The CCC has always made clear that hacking obligates to conscientious | ||
24 | behavior. The claim on handling the data so obtained – protecting | ||
25 | private data, using public data – applies to everyone, even companies | ||
26 | and governments. | ||
27 | |||
28 | But hacker ethics are more than an unbinding set of instructions for | ||
29 | moral behaviour. They require us to question the alleged reality and | ||
30 | mistrust authorities, because truth lies behind speciousness. Hackers | ||
31 | abstract from outward appearances, they tweak structures and processes | ||
32 | to actively form our society. | ||
33 | |||
34 | In an almost naïve conviction we have so far assumed that the | ||
35 | confrontation with the machine alone suffices to free its users and in | ||
36 | the long run drive them to make our world a better place for all people. | ||
37 | |||
38 | ## The Club {#theclub} | ||
39 | |||
40 | Openness has always been a principle of the Chaos Computer Club, which | ||
41 | is expressed in the fact that we have gladly accepted people with new | ||
42 | positions, as long as they have not come into conflict with our previous | ||
43 | positions. We have done well with this, because it has enriched the club | ||
44 | with new topics. Important topics like civil rights, the engagement with | ||
45 | free software and copyrights, or Blinkenlights became reality, which | ||
46 | extended the “Hackerverein” of the 80s. But openness is not | ||
47 | arbitrariness. Precisely because openness has turned out to be useful, | ||
48 | we must not forget the borders and our historical roots, especially at a | ||
49 | time in which nationalist content is increasingly pushing its way into | ||
50 | the centre of society and the centre is increasingly losing itself in | ||
51 | right-wing extremism, racist exclusion and social exploitation. | ||
52 | |||
53 | ## Technological Infatuation and May 8, 1945 {#techand1945} | ||
54 | |||
55 | Sixty years ago – on May 8, 1945 – the Allies liberated Germany from | ||
56 | National Socialist rule. In order to stop the German murder machine, in | ||
57 | the end no other option remained other than the complete military | ||
58 | abolition. In particular in light of the fact that the logistics of the | ||
59 | Holocaust were driven forward by Hollerith punch card machines, trains | ||
60 | rolled on sophisticated railway networks into the extermination camps, | ||
61 | and Nazi engineers in love with technology tinkered with “retaliatory | ||
62 | weapons”, it is clear today that completely value-free discussions about | ||
63 | pure technology for its own sake are no longer possible without a look | ||
64 | at the social consequences. Hacking is about much more than soldering | ||
65 | irons and gcc, it is also about the dream of a better and free society. | ||
66 | The horizon of the hacker goes far beyond the edge of the screen. | ||
67 | |||
68 | ## The Statement {#thestatement} | ||
69 | |||
70 | We are a galactic community of living beings, independent of age, | ||
71 | gender, descent and social status, open to all who have new ideas. But | ||
72 | those who approach us with ideas of racism, exclusion, and the | ||
73 | structural and physical violence associated with it have abandoned | ||
74 | dialogue and are beyond the limits of acceptance. Anyone who wants to | ||
75 | destroy coexistence in this society and work towards an alternative | ||
76 | society whose principles are based on chauvinism and nationalism is | ||
77 | working against the moral principles that unite us as a club. | ||
78 | |||
79 | The CCC declares the representation of racism and the trivialization of | ||
80 | historical and current fascist violence to be incompatible with | ||
81 | membership. This includes in particular membership in or support of a | ||
82 | right-wing extremist or right-wing radical organization. By this we mean | ||
83 | not only numerous “free comradeships” but also groups such as the | ||
84 | “Deutsche Liga für Volk und Heimat”, DVU, FPÖ, the “Hilfsgemeinschaft | ||
85 | Nationaler Gefangener”, Lijst Pim Fortuyn (Partij LPF), NPD, ProKöln and | ||
86 | “Die Republikaner”. | ||