Declaration of parenting IT professionals about Internet Blocking
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Declaration of parenting IT professionals about Internet Blocking
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Re: Declaration of parenting IT professionals about Internet Blocking
#2This 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.
Re: Declaration of parenting IT professionals about Internet Blocking
#3This 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.
In fact, a few grammatical oddities aside, the automatic translation is quite readable. I was quite surprised, not least because it's been a while since I had to use one.
Germany seems to suffer worse from the reactionary types who are quick to pin blame on anything innocuous (paintball, anyone?) over any kind of human tragedy. I mean, look at the ludicrous film and videogame censorship they have over there, partly self-enforced just so companies can avoid having their works indexed (which effectively puts a permanent black mark against it, and I suppose nobody would want to touch it).
And when you combine reactionaries with career-seeking politicians, a recipe for disaster is in the making.
Re: Declaration of parenting IT professionals about Internet Blocking
#4I 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).