The Dawning of Internet Censorship in Germany

"The working group on censorship demonstrated the alternatives for instance by actually removing over 60 websites containing child pornographic content in 12 hours, simply by emailing the international providers who then removed this content from the net."<p>This is a great example of demonstrating the government's real intentions. If a bunch of guys can send a few emails and take down 60 childporn sites, what are the paid government enforcement agencies doing? Evidently, it has nothing to do with child porn and everything to do with politics.

The great irony is, Germany spends so much time combating anything related to Nazism out of paranoia of a return to totalitarianism. And they don't see the massive contradiction here.

Just one though as I was looking at opera unite right now: if things go bad with the net, this will be important, everyone, even non technical, will easily host a proxy e.g...<p>By the way, in France our 3-strikes law was found unconstitutionnal, and this law seems similarly dubious: do you guys in Germany have some institutions that check this kind of cases?

I think <i>circumscribing</i> would be a better choice of word here:<p>"...without introducing a censorship architecture and <i>circumcising</i> constitutional freedoms."<p>The translation is fluent, and I shouldn't make fun of it, but that line made me laugh.<p>On a more salient note, it's good to see that these proposals are not proceeding without public notice. It's hard to fight the "FOR THE CHILDREN!" brigade, but fortunately the Germans are having the debate openly, paying at least lip service to constitutional process.