Big Brother Awards 2010 Last night I visited the first time a Big Brother Award
in Vienna
Rabenhof theater. Who was not there, has missed something!
The ceremony was recorded on video, more information there are on the official website
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| audience before Rabenhof Theater |
the Big Brother Award will have excellent politicians, entrepreneurs and organizations distinguished themselves particularly to the violation of Datenschuztrechte and privacy of citizens . The "winner" will be presented, usually in the absence and vigorously booed, but the opportunity to personally pick up their prices (and justify) and to publish an opinion on the Big Brother website.
history
The Big Brother Award is originally from the UK and is awarded irregularly in over 25 countries. Austria is a special Big Brother-country: Only in Austria, there is continually a year for 12 years, a Big-Brother-Award "event".
've personally had a lot to do only 2 times with a Big-Brother-Award:
the first time several years ago in the local Flex Danube Canal, where price trophies - small, battery-powered robot - "the plank" into the Danube Canal marched. Since a robot technology requires refused and instead marched on the stand, he was scared by kick kicked in a wide arc into the Danube Canal ... An unforgettable experience. The Awards ceremony hosted at the time of the cabaret
Thomas Maurer .
few years later I heard on the
Chaos Computer Congress 2006 in Berlin a lecture on the Austrian Big-Brother-Award. was amid great applause reported Austrian Big Brother Awards, including a price of from living, huge cockroaches (in a Plexiglas cylinder) existed and sustainable by lifetime award
Lifelong-annoying Elisabeth Gehrer Award for approach to the novel 1984 " - Elisabeth Gehrer was Education Minister during the blue-black coalition
Big Brother Award. 2010
prevailed in theater from 20:00 Rabenhof already dense crowd. The tickets cost just as likeable 0, - €, but were still issued with a serious expression, controlled and destroyed. Also gratifying: I was able to get one of the very cool
Big-Brother-Award T-Shirts .
led through the evening TV presenter
Dagmar Streicher , next to the bands music titles
Squishysquid " and
kilo music and an art project (Testicular scan) of the duo "
monochrome " the individual presenters were presented to which the nominations. A voiceover then announced the jury's decision and the winner in each category, accompanied by loud whistles and boos from the audience.
the first time I had the opportunity the physicist Werner Gruber
(known from
Science Busters ) to see live. In a video recording was shown as Mr Gruber for a television report
thermite by a body scanner
smuggled and could thus demonstrate the absurdity of the whole anti-terrorist measures. Because of his demonstration was the use of body scanners Germany moved into Belgium and canceled an order. He is by his own admission since the most prominent body scanner model.
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| Science Buster Werner Gruber, aircraft explosives into cans and presenter Dagmar Streicher |
lifelong nuisance
the grand prize in the
category "lifelong nuisance" were deservedly the "Internet -barrier " who want to impose on the pretext of combating child pornography, censorship and power locks on the Internet for music and film industry for their" help to rights ".
concern
felt a politically interested person I am when it comes to privacy and civil rights actually quite well informed, at the Big-Brother-Award-Gala, I learned I did not know details about privacy and abuse of rights in Austria, which made me very upset.
beat so Justice Minister Claudia Bandion-Ortner [ÖVP] (thanks to a massive "campaign" of the Greens) in the price of local politicians Minister Fekter (also People's Party). While Ms. Fekter campaign actions (prison for young children) by the Viennese election campaign are well known to me Bandion-Ortner's recent actions were less aware of: Weeks of pre-trial detention and had set fire to a suspicion of forming a terrorist organization against four young people engaging in wastepaper baskets. Moreover subpoena of journalists (including profile) for interrogation and prosecution by the Fraud Squad because the journalists had quoted from a running process, which in Germany (sic) shall be punishable. Mind you, not in Austria! Even the interrogating police officer had to admit that there is nothing against the journalists.
reactions
for two awards-nominees-but-not-elected (by Attac and from a SMS competition) took the opportunity to justify himself in public. The spokesman of Attac (it was about the illegally obtained CD with control data) pleaded for equal treatment in the privacy of labor income and investment income. The speaker of the mobile contest called for nominations for Big Brother Award withdraw if an opinion of the company can refute the allegations. While the audience Attacking the speaker was well-disposed reaped the mobile lottery spokesman boos.
Datenklauskandal margins even in the Big-Brother-Award: The newspaper "Der Standard online
" The winners have published at 20:00 on their site before the official proclamation at the event ... apparently there is a " data leakage "in the Big Brother organization.
Mr. Gruber forgot his explosives-Flascherln after his appearance at the podium - the moderator they had him into a hilarious grudge. A male presenter was "Renate" as presented and a laudatory speech, stumbled several times with the details of Apple's I-Phone.
Conclusion A very enjoyable evening to a distressing issue. Visit next year is recommended.
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