Political censorship attempt from Catalunia / Intent de censura des de Catalunya / Tentativo di censura politica dalla Catalogna
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Elections in Catalunia are approaching, and one of our users has set up a parody website exposing the actions of some indipendentists catalan politicians: http://www.autistici.org/convenienciaiunio/
The site denounces the acts of the catalan nationalist party, Convergence and Union – http://www.ciu.cat/ , whilist using similar logos and writings, it exposes some of the truths behind several people of this party.
This satire must have been very succesful, as in the last two days, various “net-cops” have requested the takedown of this website through multiple channels by presenting themselves (alternatively) as:
- CESICAT – Government of Catalonia Cyber-security department (and their jurisdiction should be limited only Catalan state entities – this unusual intervention makes one wonder how thin the distinction between catalan institutions and the reigning party is…)
- The responsible for publications, websites and social networks of the party who is the target of the parody.
All of which is blatantly not true, of course. It’s simply an attempt to gag a well-executed satire on the web.
The best answer to these silly requests, and to everybody trying to impose censorship on the freedom of expression on the internet, is to mirror this website as much as possible.
Spread the word about it, let the “Streisand effect” have its revenge on those who can’t understand you can’t censor free speech on the ‘net.
El web denuncia diverses actuacions del partit nacionalista català, Convergència i Unió – http://www.ciu.cat/, fent servir logos i escrits similars, i exposa algunes veritats rere diversos membres del partit.
Aquesta sàtira deu haver tingut molt d’èxit, i durant els darrers dos dies, diversos “policies de la xarxa” han demanat la retirada d’aquest web fent servir diversos canals presentant-se a sí mateixos (alternativament) com:
CESICAT – departament de ciber-seguretat del govern català (la seva jurisdicció hauria d’estar limitada a entitats públiques catalanes – aquesta intervenció inusual ens meravella de com de fina és la distinció entre les institucions catalanes i el partit al govern…)
El responsable de les publicacions, webs i xarxes socials del partit que és objecte de la paròdia.
Depenent de quin rol (poli bo / poli dolent) han fet servir fins ara, els nostres “policies de la xarxa” fan al·legacions ridícules cap al nostre usuari, tant com acusant-lo de “phishing”, o assenyalant que divulgant informació falsa aquest usuari té objectius que són “els oposats a allò que promovem al vostre web”.
Tot això és descaradament fals, per descomptat. És tant sols un intent d’emmordassar una sàtira ben feta en la web.
La millor resposta a aquestes peticions ximples, i a tothom que vulgui provar d’imposar la censura de la llibertat d’expressió a la xarxa, és fer tants mirrors d’aquest web com sigui possible.
Feu difusió d’això que està passant, deixem que l’efecte Streisand es prengui la seva revenja sobre aquells que no puguin entendre que no es pot censurar la llibertat d’expressió a la xarxa.
Nosaltres, per la nostra banda, no treurem el web donat que pensem que és perfectament legítim i que no n’hi ha cap base legal per tal que cap organisme català actuï contra nosaltres. Com a nota final, només per fer memòria, continuem sense desar cap mena de log d’activitats, adreces IP, i res que pugui ajudar a identificar els nostres usuaris, tant pel que fa als nostres usuaris com als lectors que llegeixin el nostre web.
Le elezioni in Catalogna sono imminenti e uno degli utenti di Autistici/Inventati ha messo in piedi un sito-parodia che denuncia il modus operandi di alcuni politici indipendentisti catalani.
- CESICAT – Dipartimento per la cyber-sicurezza del governo catalano (la giurisdizione di costoro è ovviamente limitata alla regione catalana; per altro, è interessante osservare la irritualità di questo intervento, che solleva molte domande tra l’effettivo grado di separazione tra istituzioni catalane e il partito politico dominante…)
- responsabili per le pubblicazioni, i siti web e i social network del partito preso di mira dal sito-parodia.
Tags: arturmas, catalunia, catalunya, censorship, censura, ciu, freedom of speech, llibertat d'expressió
Novembre 24th, 2012 at 3:42 pm
https://www.scimmia.net/convenienciaiunio/
Novembre 25th, 2012 at 4:47 pm
mirror: http://convenienciaiunio.contaminati.net
comunicato: http://ortiche.noblogs.org/2012/11/25/con-autistici-contro-la-censura-catalana/
Novembre 25th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
There isn’t any attempt to censor anything, the site you mention is attempting to pass itself as an official political party website when it clearly isn’t. They should not be using the official logo and photographs placing it all together as if it was an official site.
It is also pretty appealing that a collective like yours will not hesitate defending the right of the Palestinian people to have their own estate but will say nothing about the right of the Catalan people to decide in free elections if they would like their own estate and get rid of Spanish colonialism.
Novembre 25th, 2012 at 8:11 pm
the site we host does a satirical criticism of that party.
we have nothing against catalunia and his aim for independence.
we defend the right of dissent of a catalunian who does not trust this party and wishes to denounce the corruption in it.
simple as that.
Novembre 25th, 2012 at 8:33 pm
@phantom: What I see here is a freedom of speech issue, that you clearly don’t get. As anyone can judge by himself, the site does not violate A/I policy, thus A/I will not willfully take it down because someone does not like its content.
Also, alleging any attitude against Catalan independence to A/I is clearly propaganda – which convinces me that you are the same person who complained to A/I. Next time you may want to sign any further comment with your official title, instead of trying to pass as an indignated catalan citizen.
Novembre 26th, 2012 at 9:17 am
Phantom, CIU is *not* Catalan people and yesterday elections clearly stated it, by the way. And the self-determination right has nothing to do with an attempt to censor a fully-legitimate satiric site.
Novembre 29th, 2012 at 1:09 pm
All my support to Autistici and their work! By the way, CiU IS NOT and independentist party, they are just pure neoliberal capitalist right wing (and quite extreme) trying to play with nationalism to keep people ignorant of their fucked up economical and social politics. At least they didn’t get away with it in the last elections.
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