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Date: 1999-01-12
YU: Mirrorsites zertruemmern Zensur-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- updating 98.12.22/1 YU: Mirrorsites zertruemmern Zensur Wer filtert & blockiert beziehungsweise die Verbreitung von Nachrichten im Netz behindert, wird binnen eines Monats mit Mirrorsites bestraft & der Lächerlichkeit preisgegeben. Dies widerfuhr den Belgrader Zensoren, als sie die Website von Radio B 92 blockierten & zusehen mussten, wie sich der verbotene Inhalt im Netz vervielfachte. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Julie Moffett 11 January 1999 A Serbian expert on electronic media says efforts by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to censor electronic media in his country have been largely a failure. Drazen Pantic, director of the Internet Department of the independent Serbian station Radio B-92, made the comment last week in Washington during a press briefing on Serbian media issues. .... Radio B-92 was the first media outlet in Serbia to use the Internet to provide an alternative source for uncensored news. It began doing so in December 1996, during anti-government demonstrations in Serbia, when thousands protested the government's annulment of municipal elections. Radio B92 broadcasts were sporadically jammed and the radio's transmitter eventually shut off. In an interview with RFE/RL in April 1997, Veran Matic, editor-in-chief of Radio B-92, said that during this turbulent time, Radio B-92 turned to the Internet. He said B-92 posted print versions of its newscasts on its web site and also began using RealAudio, which allows users to listen to on-line broadcasts over the Internet. ... Matic said that two days after the B-92 transmitter was turned off, the government--apparently realizing it could not stop the dissemination of information and programming via the Internet--turned it back on. Matic said the students, who were the mainstay of the demonstrations, were energized by B-92's victory and began referring to it as their "Internet Revolution." Speaking in Washington last week, Pantic said that it was B-92's success that unleashed the power of the Internet for all independent media in Serbia. He added that its effect and potential also greatly alarmed the Serbian government. For example, Pantic said that the new media law in Serbia includes attempts to try and control the Internet. ... Pantic also said the Serbian government has put filters on independent media web sites, including B- 92's, thereby preventing Internet users in Serbia from accessing those sites. For example, officials put filters on the Serbian Academic Network, blocking access to B-92's web site. Pantic noted that there was no official announcement about the filter and that the move was simply done "overnight." But he added that B-92 was easily able to get around the filters by setting up "mirror pages," ... "The government can't filter every mirror site," he explained with a smile. Pantic said that within a few weeks of setting up the filters on the Serbian Academic Network, the government partly lifted them. Officials finally realized they were unable to block the mirror sites and stop the information from being disseminated, he added. But perhaps the biggest irony of the situation, says Pantic, is that the government has been unable to prevent the electronic mail distribution of B-92 news. He says the station currently has a subscriber list of about 30,000 people. ... Gene Mater, a retired broadcast journalist and adviser to the U.S.-based Freedom Forum also spoke at last week's briefing, saying that Serbia's new media law dashes any hope for a free press in Serbia. Mater said he had the Serbian law analyzed by a Washington law firm that has extensive experience in dealing with Central and East European media laws. According to Mater, the law firm determined that the Serbian media law is a "blatantly unconstitutional exercise in media censorship, intimidation, and punishment that cannot stand under either Serbian or international law." ... Source Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol 3, No. 6, Part II relayed by David Banisar <banisar@epic.org> via gilc-plan@gilc.org -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1999-01-12 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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