Around twenty years ago, the CCC received a lasting reminder that network utopias and the focus on purely technical expertise do not work in isolation from the real world: The Naturfreundehaus Köln, which the club regularly used for events at the time, was attacked by right-wing extremists at the end of 2004. In light of this incident, it became clear that the club needed to send a clear signal both internally and externally as to where the limits of our tolerance lie and which ideas are incompatible with our values.

For many years, this document sufficed as a declaration of the CCC's political self-image and was able to wipe away any suspicion that the club was not political.

We are currently experiencing a global move towards totalitarianism, partly driven by mass media tools that partly grew within our community - not always with the necessary critical distance. This is another reason why it has now become clear that this reflection of our self-image has become outdated: most of the associations and parties named as examples no longer exist; there have been profound advancements in terms of calling out unacceptable ideas and incompatible behaviour, in our ranks and the society as a whole.

The declaration of incompatibility was never formally adopted by the association. We have now made up for this:

At the general meeting of the Chaos Computer Club e.V. in the historic Fritz Bauer Hall in Frankfurt/Main on 6 April 2025, the members unanimously adopted a revised and binding version of this Incompatibility of membership of the Chaos Computer Club, which we would now like to proudly introduce here.