{"id":7982,"date":"2018-06-13T00:19:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T07:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=7982"},"modified":"2020-08-26T12:43:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T19:43:35","slug":"swiss-vote-overwhelmingly-in-favor-of-internet-censorship-in-june-10-gambling-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/swiss-vote-overwhelmingly-in-favor-of-internet-censorship-in-june-10-gambling-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss vote overwhelmingly in FAVOR of Internet censorship in June 10 gambling referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:125%;font-weight:600\">The Swiss have held their referendum on foreign online gambling, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.ch\/20180610\/swiss-vote-to-block-foreign-based-gambling-sites\">voted overwhelmingly<\/a> <em>in favor<\/em> of Internet censorship. With 73% in favor of censorship, it\u2019s likely that people voted \u201cagainst scary foreigners\u201d rather than \u201cfor Swiss censorship\u201d. Even so, this is the net result: Switzerland will now create something as drastic and heavy-handed as Internet censorship to protect something as trivial as domestic gambling.<\/p>\n<p>The law requiring Swiss ISPs to censor parts of the Internet, in order to prevent Swiss people from accessing foreign gambling sites and services, has been working its way through the Swiss legislature for some time. It was challenged by Switzerland\u2019s powerful democracy, where 50,000 citizens can challenge any new law in a country-wide referendum. This is what happened to the Internet censorship law, and where you would think it would face an Internet generation who understand that you don\u2019t meddle with the Internet lightly.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, this is not what happened.<\/p>\n<p>With a constituency used to citizens challenging both the one and the other on a regular basis, and maybe even a little tired of routine challenges to the parliament\u2019s ongoing work, the parliament\u2019s narrative \u2014 that this new law is just making sure nothing changes with the advent of the Internet \u2014 won.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, one has to wonder just how such a message can take hold in the first place, \u201cwe\u2019re making a law to make sure nothing changes with the advent of the Internet\u201d. In retrospect, would anybody consider it sensible to make laws to make sure nothing changed in civilization just because somebody invented computers? The automobile? Electricity?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a second narrative here, \u201cprotect against foreigners\u201d (foreign gambling companies, specifically), which is a very strong narrative in Switzerland. (I\u2019m not saying I like it, I am making an observation.) To illustrate just how strong, entrenched, and normative this narrative is, here\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=swiss+election+poster+sheep&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch\">Swiss election poster<\/a> with three white sheep standing on the Swiss flag, kicking a <em>fourth black sheep off<\/em> the Swiss flag, with the text \u201cMake Switzerland safe\u201d. The symbolism cannot be misunderstood. In any other country I\u2019ve been to and all other cultures I know of, having this symbolism on public display would be deemed utterly politically unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>And so, the Swiss voted overwhelmingly to create an Internet censorship regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss have held their referendum on foreign online gambling, and voted overwhelmingly in favor of Internet censorship. With 73% in favor of censorship, it\u2019s likely that people voted \u201cagainst scary foreigners\u201d rather than \u201cfor Swiss censorship\u201d. 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