A Black Day For Internet Freedom In Germany

Several readers including erlehmann and tmk wrote to inform us about the dawning of Internet censorship in Germany under the usual guise of protecting the children. "This week, the two big political parties ruling Germany in a coalition held the final talks on their proposed Internet censorship scheme. DNS queries for sites on a list will be given fake answers that lead to a page with a stop sign. The list itself is maintained by the German federal police (Bundeskriminalamt). A protest movement has formed over the course of the last several months, and over 130K citizens have signed a petition protesting the law. Despite this, and despite criticism from all sides, the two parties sped up the process for the law to be signed on Thursday, June 18, 2009."

Geez!

[elrous0]

Man, those Germans are worse than Nazis.

Re:These parties are also big Linux supporters

[despe666]

Godwin's law on the first post? Come on give us a chance at least!

Holy shit!

[jockeys]

This thread is Godwin-proof!

Think about it:
1. it's a story about government censorship (with all the usual iron-fisted delicacy wielded by big-government)
2. it's a process that is completely non-transparent, and creates a sort of internet-secret-police
3. it's happening in Germany

It's the perfect storm of internet flamewars, completely immune to Godwin's Lawn!

Re:Gigaton Fail -

[MrEricSir]

That's not what the Ministry of Truth told me.

Re:Freudian Slip or Bad Translation?

[Anonymous Coward]

From TFA:

... circumcising constitutional freedoms.

A little snip here, a little snip there...

Re:Geez!

[HaZardman27]

How long until the "internet burnings" begin?

Re:Holy shit!

[solafide]

Godwin: "You young folks these days, thinking you're immune to me. Get off my lawn!"

Re:Holy shit!

[Jesselnz]

This really isn't a big deal. If the Germans want Internet, they can just take it from Poland, or maybe France (they could connect the tubes through Belgium). It worked last time, didn't it?

Re:I know the feeling.

[an unsound mind]

In Nazi Germany... wait, that isn't funny.

Don't worry...

[Shoe Puppet]

... no one has the intention to erect a firewall [wikiquote.org]

Re:I know the feeling.

[powerlord]

I feel bad for the people in Germany, but I'm glad its not me.

I'm sure there's a word that describes my secret joy about their bad-luck, but I can't remember it.

Probably in some foreign language or something.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude [wikipedia.org])

Re:Geez!

[skuzzlebutt]

Wait, is that why all of my .pl requests are going to .de all of a sudden? Spoooky....

Re:The 1st thing to come to mind was...

[CompMD]

WWHD(ITHTIIT1940S)?