Declaration of parenting IT professionals about Internet Blocking

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by sven • 17 years ago

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sven• 17 years ago

This is a automatic translation of a note from german parents to their government. In short it says: Please stop politics of symbolism, start thinking.

May be this thing has to come from international press back to germany.

limmeau• 17 years ago

I don't now how much this topic is discussed outside Germany's blogosphere. A short summary on what has happened so far: Germany's federal parliament will be elected in September. Minister Ursula von der Leyen (family, youth) decided to do something about child abuse: the BKA (federal police office) is supposed to compile a daily blacklist of child pornography websites which all ISPs are supposed to block for their customers. Something similar is already deployed in Norway and other states, though usually not with access logs available to the police for prosecution.

This met fierce opposition of internet users, who argued that it would be more effective to just have the local police take down the servers and find the child abusers, and that turning the BKA into a censorship office would certainly offer politicians an opportunity to slowly grow the black list to include other illegal sites and, in a second step, sites with opinions.

This is currently the hot topic number one in German blogs, and the petition to stop this law is currently the second-most signed petition to the federal parliament (the most-signed petition being one to reduce taxes on gas).

Declaration of parenting IT professionals about Internet Blocking

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