Updated Version as of 21:47 CET: We are a group of chaotic individuals from Ukraine and other European countries. We had registered an assembly for 37c3 to focus on the topic of ongoing hybrid warfare by authorotarian regimes against European democracies. Unfortunately, the assembly was rejected by the organizers. [screenshot1,2,3] The current fahrplan also yields up to nothing related to that topic. Even though we know of at least a handful of speakers who tried to register related talks (e.g. Gesine Dornblüth "Toxic society of Russia", Artem Zakharchenlo and Nastya Melnychenko, "Lines of division in the Ukrainian society", https://my.ua/persons/mikita-soloviov "Marshall plan for Ukraine") which were not accepted either. We are very saddened by those circumstances. Because we consider the ongoing aggression on democratic societies to be probably one of the most important and crucial threads of our decade. [Not only for Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova or Tschechnia which suffer already since years from real war], but especially and also for our western countries. Somehow we feel like that there is a kind of silence in our chaos community on this topic. What are the reasons for this? - Are we afraid that we have different views on this topic and are silence for the sake of harmony? that if we start a discussion, it might push us to UNUSUAl - Do we just have the false hope that none of this ever affects us, because it still feels so "far away"? That the real physical threat against us is just not an imagination in (open and public!) statements of the agressor anymore can be seen by examples like the planned -but fortunately thwarted- attacks to throw Germany into blackout² in 2022. In our opinion the question how to oppose those threats should be even not only an assembly, but the main topic/motto for this first congress after the full-scale invasion. We urgently need a community descision/formulation how to react to to the conflict of authoritarian regimes vs democracy, "right of strongest" vs "right of law" (Recht des Stärkeren vs. "Rechtstaatlichkeit" from POV of hacker ethic. And from personal discussions on the camp we also feel that we are not alone in this opinion. [2] https://www.fr.de/wirtschaft/wladimir-putin-gas-russland-deutschland-ukraine-blackout-gazprom-germania-verstaatlichung-anschlag-zr-92713907.html Older Verison: We are a group of chaotic individuals from Ukraine and other European countries. We had registered an assembly for 37c3 (see screenshot). Unfortunately, it was "not accepted" by the organizers. Any explaination what let to this decision, we did not received so far, even after request. The fahrplan also contains up to nothing of presentations related to that. [We know of at least a handful of speakers ] All of the speakers we know of who tried to register related talks where not accepted either. We are very saddened by those circumstance. Because we consider the ongoing aggression on democratic societies to be probably one of the most important and crucial threads of our decade. Somehow we feel like that there is a kind of silence in our chaos community on this topic. What are the reasons for this? - Are we afraid that we have different views on this topic and are silence for the sake of harmony? - Do we just have the false hope that none of this ever affects us, because it's so "far away"? In our opinion this should be the main topic for this first congress after the full-scale invasion. Since this topic should concerns us all. As seen lately by the attack on Kyivstar¹ and e.g. the planned -but fortunately thwarted- attacks to through Germany into blackout² in 2022. [1] https://www.heise.de/news/Hacker-Angriff-auf-ukrainischen-Mobilfunkanbieter-Kyivstar-9573034.html [2] https://www.fr.de/wirtschaft/wladimir-putin-gas-russland-deutschland-ukraine-blackout-gazprom-germania-verstaatlichung-anschlag-zr-92713907.html In our eyes we actually need a community descision/formulation how to react to to the conflict of authoritarian regimes vs democracy, "right of strongest" vs "right of law" (Recht des Stärkeren vs. "Rechtstaatlichkeit" from POV of hacker ethic. Put your version here:...
