German Member of Parliament Joins Pirate Party

Political Observer writes "Jörg Tauss, a member of the German Parliament (Bundestag), left the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which is part of the coalition government, and announced that he is joining the German Pirate Party (Google translation; original German article). Tauss resigned from the SPD after all but four of the party's members voted for a new censorship law, which passed the parliament on Thursday. The law, which aims at reducing child pornography, introduces an infrastructure for DNS-based content blocking and is the subject of major criticism from Internet users. In March 2009 Tauss became the subject of investigations by the German police for possession of child pornographic material. He said he had this material only for research as part of his role as a member of parliament. Investigations are still continuing."

Wow, the world IS changing!

[Anonymous Coward]

First a black president, and now a pirate party! Amazing!

Ninja party for the win

[thetoadwarrior]

I agree with the Pirate Party but I'm still holding out for a Ninja party since Ninjas > Pirates.

Re:Ninja party for the win

[bluemonq]

Will they conquer inferior spelling and grammar as well?

Re:Ninja party for the win

[bsharitt]

The terminator conquest will be so great, a verb would not suffice in describing it, only a noun could contain it.

Re:Ninja party for the win

[thetoadwarrior]

All terminators are based on Austrians who've taken English classes so their English isn't the best. Aside from "Are you Sarah Connor?" and "I'll be back.", they're pretty shit at English.

Re:Why chase pedofiles and not child molesters?

[Anonymous Coward]

But people who just download it from peer to peer networks without anyone profitting or getting hurt more because of that download? Hell, it might even prevent some child abusement cases.

That's definitely true, if you use the RIAA's logic. Hell, he can claim that he "stole" money from child pornographers.

Re:kiddie porn "research"

[Ethanol-fueled]

Why don't you have a seat over here and tell me what you are doing with 9 year-old ballerinas in your thumbnail cache?

Re:Ninja party for the win

[Jurily]

Yeah. Everyone knows it's spelled Konqueror.

Re:Ninja party for the win

[Anonymous Coward]

Ninjas certainly are better, but I don't much care for their health care plan. [wikipedia.org]

Re:Ninja party for the win

[CrystalFalcon]

The ninja parties are there. They just aren't visible in the polls.

Re:Ninja party for the win

[Lars T.]

Wow. This must be the first article about Germany where the grammar nazis get mentioned before the actual Nazis.

Re:No one here's buying it.

[takshaka]

No, the child isn't being directly harmed by someone viewing their exploitation, however their honor and dignity are chipped away at with each viewing.

Indeed. We must preserve the honor and dignity of 10-year-olds so they will have some left to throw away when they are 17.