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Date: 1998-04-10
Zensur: Diana Tunnel Racer Game-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Zensur: Diana Tunnel Racer Ersonnen, programmiert, gespielt, verboten - jetzt ist der Diana Tunnel Racer wieder da im Netz. Obacht, es bedarf dafür eines Macromedia/plugins INTERNET FREEDOM RESTORES DIANA TUNNEL RACER Internet Freedom has placed the game "The Princess Di Tunnel Racer" on our site after it was forcibly removed from its German site last week. The game depicts a Mercedes speeding through a tunnel chased by paparazzi motorcyclists. As a direct challenge to censorship the game is now available at <www.netfreedom.org>. The demand for the game to be removed from the Net reflects the growing trend for material to be censored on the grounds that it is morally repugnant. Unlike more traditional forms of censorship which involve state-sponsored legal action, the Internet is increasingly subject to censorship by regulatory bodies, Internet Service Providers themselves, or through direct moral pressure. As a consequence a growing number of perfectly legal sites have been removed from the Net. The list includes the "Dunblane Massacre" game shutdown by Virgin, the Serial Killer site shutdown by America Online, the Basque Independence site shutdown by Easynet, and the Diana crash photos shutdown by Internet Content Register. The Diana Tunnel Racer was designed by a number of American Internet game enthusiasts at Fork Unstable Media located in Hamburg (http://www.fork.de). Fork see themselves as trash-artists reacting to a politically correct society. They were forced to remove the game from the Net after extensive media interest. The trajectory for these developments is for anything morally questionable to be eliminated from the Net. This threatens to undermine one of its greatest benefits: the potential for freedom of expression on a global scale. By contrast, expression is being compromised on three levels: by Internet Service Providers who feel forced to impose moral constraints on the material hosted by their customers; by a growing number of non-governmental bodies who seek to arbitrate on acceptability of material; and by originators of content who are forced to consider other people's moral judgements about their material before uploading it. The notion that the only responsible attitude to Net material is to ensure that it does not cause offense to anybody has serious consequences for free speech. Chris Ellison, spokesman for Internet Freedom, commented: "Virtually every progressive event in history has involved opinions that were considered morally repugnant at the time. Votes for women, the abolition of slavery, even the idea that the Earth was not at the centre of the Universe, have all involved minority ideas that were widely regarded as offensive. If the trend for censoring morally offensive material continues unchallenged, not only will the full potential of the Net be squandered, but the gains of the last century stand to be reversed." The Diana Tunnel Racer can be found from Internet Freedom's website at http://www.netfreedom.org. - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 1998-04-10 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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