Germany Institutes Censorship Infrastructure

An anonymous reader writes "Germany's government has passed a draft law for censorship of domains hosting content related to child pornography. A secret list of IPs will be created by the BKA, Germany's federal police; any attempted access to addresses on this list is blocked, logged (the draft seems to contradict press reports on this point) and redirected to a government page featuring a large stop sign. The law has not yet passed the assembly, however five of the largest ISPs have already agreed to voluntarily submit to the process even without a law in place. Critics argue that with the censorship infrastructure in place, the barrier for blocking access for various other reasons is very low. The fact that the current block can easily be circumvented may lead to more effective technologies to be used in the future. There are general elections as well as elections in several of the states later this year."

Re:RickRoll Germany

[EdIII]

huge percentage of Germans will be found out as perverts.

huge percentage of German will be confirmed to be perverts.

There fixed it for you.

I'm not trolling here either :) German porn is legendary . Can make you hard and sick at the same time :)

Re:RickRoll Germany

[WeirdCat]

You will laugh, but this could be exactly the solution to stop this stupid idea. Wait till the first politician has to explain why the number of people looking at those addresses are sky rocketing! :-)

Re:RickRoll Germany

[dunkelfalke]

it is also known for great dialogues [youtube.com]:

- So that's the power box that we've been having problems with, if you could take a look...
- Sure, but why is this straw lying around here?"
- Hm, and why are you wearing a mask?
- Hmmm... well, give me a blowjob then.

satire

[Tom]

If you can read german, this comment from a satire magazin sums it up very well:

http://titanic-magazin.de/stopp.html [titanic-magazin.de]

Re:Inc. China

[Cally]

China has a police force. My country has a police force. ZOMG!!!! fascist communistic dictatorship prepares to seize power and enslave us in their siberian lard mines!!!

And anyway, when climate change kicks in and the world descends into every-nation-for-itself anarchy, we're gonna need some form of authoritarian state power to enforce conscription into the armies needed to fight off the starving hordes massing on various national borders.