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[ x x ] & HACKTIVISMO
\ / "A Special Message of Hope"
(' ') July 4th, 2001
(U) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Hacktivismo and the CULT OF THE DEAD COW have decided that enough
is too much. We are hackers and free speech advocates, and we are
developing technologies to challenge state-sponsored censorship of
the Internet.
* In August, 1998, eighteen year old Turk Emre Ersoz was found
guilty of "insulting the national police" in an Internet forum
after participating in a demonstration that was violently suppressed
by the police. His ISP provided the authorities with his address.
Hacktivismo and the CULT OF THE DEAD COW are issuing the HACKTIVISMO
DECLARATION as a declaration of outrage and a statement of intent.
It is our Magna Carta for information rights. People have a right
to reasonable access of otherwise lawfully published information.
If our leaders aren't prepared to defend the Internet, we are.
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RECALLING that some member states of the United Nations have signed the
ICCPR, or have ratified it in such a way as to prevent their citizens
from using it in courts of law,
RECALLING that member states of the United Nations have failed to press
the world's most egregious information rights violators to a higher
standard,
DECLARE:
Issued July 4, 2001 by Hacktivismo and the CULT OF THE DEAD COW.
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Media Contact:
Oxblood Ruffin
Foreign Minister
CULT OF THE DEAD COW
oxblood@cultdeadcow.com
http://cultdeadcow.com