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Funny to see a bunch of (quickly flagged) comments that show a clear misunderstanding of what the German hacker scene is and wants. Besides not being a monolith and this being amenable to labeling as such, it's still in many parts different from many other hacker scenes. The CCC has always had the ambition (and backing credentials/skills) to be a political movement as much as a technological one. In fact that's the o…
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Uhhmm…
I wonder why the Congress takes place during the last few days of December. There aren't many travel options if you want to get back to your country before the new year.
It's traditionally and still a very DACH dominated event, for better or worse. Travel by regional/interregional trains around this time is perfectly fine, and it's a time where it's quite easy for a whole big community to synchronize for taking vacation. Remember that this is not the type of Congress where people go on paid time. There are no sponsorships and generally no commercial interest behind this event, so I t…
Does anyone know how can I join the org team?
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> You choose to ignore the anti-trans posters they hung up in the conference center. This is news to me. Could you share more info about this? I did a quick google search and couldn't find anything.
Well, I don't know what to tell you. There isn't anything published around this. But you can maybe find traces of the posters on social media. They where an iteration of the "Birds doesn't exist..." posters which was a meme during that years CCC.
I would appreciate a citation as nobody has mentioned anti-trans posters.
What was mentioned is that there had been conflict the year before and that Vincent was told he wasn’t welcome, which was the root of the escalation.
Funny to see a bunch of (quickly flagged) comments that show a clear misunderstanding of what the German hacker scene is and wants. Besides not being a monolith and this being amenable to labeling as such, it's still in many parts different from many other hacker scenes. The CCC has always had the ambition (and backing credentials/skills) to be a political movement as much as a technological one. In fact that's the o…
I left the CCC in 2020 after C3 crew decided that the cock.li mail-service is a fascist and started, escalated, and carried out an attack on its administrator Vincent Canfield [1]. Sorry, but throwing someone on the floor in front of the congress building for registering clearly sarcastic domains such as "hitler.rocks" and "nuke.africa" is just not what I understand under anti-facism. It's merely a power move for con…
When I visit the page I'm greeted by a banner with fake quotes, here is a selection:
> I'm 200% n*ger
> Come fuck with a n*ger. I'm a business man
There is nothing that indicates sarcasm or satire there when it comes to all those choices, given that the site advertises itself towards 4chan users. At best it's edgy and infantile, at worst it's just the usual racist shit that is "funny" only to the people repeating it very loudly over and over and over.
Weird how the only flavour of "sarcasm" and "humor" people like you and the site owner can come up with is the glorification of nazis and making fun of black people.
I wonder who it is you are trying to fool here...
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Have you ever re-read your posts and realized how incredibly whiny this all sounds? He tried to start shit and got thrown out. Stop whining.
I just find it sad that some people come up to this thread and straight up lie bc someone sent a link to here on IRC.
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Well, I don't know what to tell you. There isn't anything published around this. But you can maybe find traces of the posters on social media. They where an iteration of the "Birds doesn't exist..." posters which was a meme during that years CCC.
This is very new information to me and I followed the drama closely at the time as I have friends on both sides. I would appreciate a citation as nobody has mentioned anti-trans posters. What was mentioned is that there had been conflict the year before and that Vincent was told he wasn’t welcome, which was the root of the escalation.
cock.li, /g/, 4chan joint assembly printed and spammed these posters and their logo (you can see it in the OP post thumbnail) all around and were explicitly told not to organize an assembly on 36c3.
Regardless, Vincent Canfield decided to come to 36c3 and started conflicts somewhere around the Tor, GNUNet and some activist/political projects around there, then refused to get out when told to do so by orga and called the police.
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> Sorry, but throwing someone on the floor in front of the congress building for registering clearly sarcastic domains such as "hitler.rocks" and "nuke.africa" is just not what I understand under anti-facism. I'm not familiar with what happened there, but at least to me these domain names are definitely not "clearly sarcastic".
> I'm not familiar with what happened there, but at least to me these domain names are definitely not "clearly sarcastic". Have you taken a look at the website? [1] You should be able to detect that the site is satire within a few seconds. Of course, we could dig up the whole “what is satire, what is x-ism” controversy up again, like after the Charlie Hebdo shooting. But I do believe that it's a joke, especially when…
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Except most people that would like to go have family commitments around this time. And airports are really busy. I've never been due to the busy and costly flights thing myself.
Where were you trying to travel from? Last time I was at the congress, most people I talked to arrived by train, myself included, even if it took a day of traveling.