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