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Re: [FYI] (Fwd) FC: German state moves to block "illegal" sites includin



>Subject: New German law requires ISPs to block rotten.com and 3 other
>sites
>
>Legal authorities in in Dusseldorf have required that all ISP's in the
>German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen block access to rotten.com under a
>controversial new censorship law designed to target "illegal content".

There is no German law to support this reasoning. Quite contary TDG requires
to provide access. Furthermore the wrong authorities try to urge something:
TDG is a federal law ...

And even if all those points are cleared, there remains the problem of
defining something "illegal". This can only be done by a court. So the
requests of the regional gouvernment are substanceless.

(May be forwarded)