www.quintessenz.at
on the net since 1994

ETSI

quintessenz campaigns 1994-2001
Promoting civil liberties and digital freedom on the internet

 
 
1997

August 1997
Supporting the GILC-campaign against denial-of-service attacks on the Institute for Global Communications. Eight mirrors worldwide could be found to host an endangered website of the Basque peace movement.

June 1997
Expertise on a local telecom law proposal  that was far from being a good one.  [Stellungnahme zum "Entwurf eines Bundesgesetzes betreffend die Telekommunikation, Telekommunikationsgesetz - TKG]

May to July 1997
Campaign against wiretapping law proposals in Austria ["Lauschangriff und Rasterfahndung"]

March 1997
After a police raid against an Austrian internet provider the whole country was switched off the Internet in protest a few days later. among the proponents of this strike of the whole ISP scene were two founding memebers of quintessenz. During this unique event quintessenz reports in English and German published three times a day found their way into cnn.com, wired.com and a few other world media.

 

   
the campaigns index

2001

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1999

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1996

1995

1994

 

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