Was ist, was kann, was soll Gender Studies Informatik?
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After the political and legislative failure of the blocking and filtering proposals in Germany (#Zensursula) and the EU (Child Protection Directive) several players stepped up to implement the measures that previously have been envisioned as compulsory but now on a "self-regulatory" basis. These agreements between governments and industry "partners" do not happen in backrooms exclusively. Some projects actually are surprisingly transparent about where they are aiming at and what they are doing to get there. Increasingly what is illegal on the internet and what is not is being decided without involvement of the judiciary system, but by an interaction of the executive with complying private parties using automated software tools for policy enforcement. Facebook uses PhotoDNA a software by Microsoft to screen picture uploads to its platform for know hashes from a database compiled by a third party. So does Microsoft with its Skydrive offering. The usage of such upload filters is actively encourage by the commission within the CEO coalition. In Germany White IT (initiated by the Lower Saxonies minister of interior Schnemann) works on establishing a filtering infrastructure for Webhosting and Email-Provider using a central database of hashes run by the BKA to screen for content deemed criminal by the BKA. On a European level the Clean IT project tries to define what is terrorist activity (and utterly fails at it) and how to "counter" this ill defined problem. Regardless of being uncertain about what the problem actually is the proposed solution seems quite clear: the end of anonymity and pseudonymity on the internet and filters everywhere. All this leads to a regime where legislative and judiciary processes are completely bypassed and thereby circumvented. Freedom on the internet increasingly is at the whim of some large corporate players which use the backing of the government to further their own agenda. Being an oberserving third party to the CEO coalition and Clean IT and having left White IT recently Christian will talk about what he gleaned from the processes within these projects.