Gomma on Tue, 3 Jun 1997 04:29:10 +0200 (MET DST) |
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<nettime> Attack against Decoder (english) |
The following (translated) article is from "Il Mattino" of Naples. It concerns "Decoder", one of the most relevant magazines in the Italian antagonist landscape. This raving article is against "Decoder" and the alternative Italian telematics. It is the proof that all the repressive legislation passed or under way to "regulate" the net will become instruments against freedom of expression more broadly. For those who didn't know it, the article mentioned concerns a strip by the famous English artist, Graham Harwood ("Decoder", No. 8), on the issue of violence on children. A harsh strip, ruthless, but whose only goal was to make people reason on the origins of violence against weaker human beings. But when power becomes blind, it hits in any form, it becomes abuse, it becomes censorship, and it hits everything and everyone. If this was not so gloomy for the future prospects it envisages, we could even laugh at it, but BEWARE, because this article -which the journalist who attacks us and the right to stay anonymous was not brave enough to sign- seems to anticipate a new repressive clampdown on Italian networks and their activists. As "Decoder" we will seek for advice from our lawyers to try and do something -we do not accept being used to the ends of newspapers' manipulation- and we INVITE all the comrades, brothers and sisters from telematic communities to express solidarity, to activate on these issues, and build a united front against repression. ------- "Il Mattino" 28 May 1997 The cyber-race and its prophets. See under "violence" There is also a magazine ,"Decoder", in glossy paper: it preaches the destruction of all rules ROME. A bunch of copies on adjunct attorney's Italo Ormanni. Disgusting images of violence on children accompanied by a language that is abusive in itself. It is not a porn magazine, of those some guys get behind closed doors. It's a glossy paper, underground they say, who claims to change the world. An organ of ideological struggle, one may say party-like, if we can call this way a group which is sailing on the Net preaching the destruction of all rules. And what is more shocking, more destructive than sanctifying violence on children? Ormanni, the statutes in his hands, could only do one thing. He asked to the police's telecommunication operative branch director, Maria Cristina Ascenzi, if the requisites existed to sue someone for under- age persons' exploitation. But it came out that those sick images are the outcome of computer-aided elaborations. The crime disappears, at least for current laws, but a chilling discovery is confirmed: pedophily is not only stuff for a-social, depraved people: it is used, if you pass this concept, as a tool of struggle, a ram's head against the bases of society. Going through "Decoder"'s pages is like have a walk into a frenzy: a summary of the cyberpunk's "philosophy" is that any rule must tumble down. And that anyone do what they want, totally unnamed. Being strong or weak, being the animal that eats or the one who gets eaten, does not matter. But this is not said because anyone of these cyberphilosophers feel, tacitly, the eating animal. One of the most notable parts of this vision of the world supported even through pedophily is the coming birth of a cyber-race improved by computer. And all, which they imagine so original and part of the new times, inequivocably smacks like a rotten carcass. No signatures, only proclamations. The authors don't let people look in their faces. Only battle nicknames. It's the rule, on the Net. This in the lefty circles who are seeking on the Net for alternatives to the old social centre (whom detectives call "antagonist"), like in these groups defined, instead, as rightist. Among so many living presences, curious, even provoking, then, you can also find anti- everything propaganda, desecrating by choice. Legislation that is now going to pass in Parliament provides for very hard penalties for everyone produces pornographic material representing under-age persons. Also virtual pedophily, then, might be punished, as a non- value and an "exaltation" of a crime. Until now the police, who can anyway point and prosecute those inciting to racial hatred, can just wait and see. -- | Cybernet: Gomma 65:1200/1.2 | Internet: Gomma@decoderbbs.csmtbo.mi.cnr.it | WWW : http://www4.iol.it/decoder | | Standard disclaimer: >>>> Information wants to be free <<<< | From DecoderBBS Italy +39-2-29527597 (open 14:00-08:00). --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de