[FYI] (Fwd) FC: German government plans to ban Net-porn except from 11 pm - 6 am

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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[From Risks Digest 21.81, http://www.CSL.sri.com/risksinfo.html --DBM]

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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:02:30 +0100
From: Debora Weber-Wulff <weberwu@fhtw-berlin.de>
Subject: "Late-night" Internet-porno-ban

German officials are apparently attempting to prove that the PISA results
(Germany is pretty much at the bottom of the pack in regards to education
world-wide) are true and anyone, no matter how ignorant, can be a politician
in Germany:

The German Federal Government and the State governments have agreed to new
measures for protecting youth from pornography on the Internet: according to
the "Financial Times Deutschland" (http://www.ftd.de/pw/de/FTDPRAR3MUC.html)
all such content is banned from 11 p.m. until 6 a.m.

No, this is not April Fools' Day.  Really.  The German government seems to
think that when it is 11 p.m. in Germany, it is 11 p.m. everywhere else. And
that all those XXX folks on the Internet will happily turn off the sleaze
during the German day when the kiddies are awake.

This has of course caused an uproar amongst those in the know.
Spiegel-on-line wrote an open letter to the guy in charge of publishing this
nonsense, Frank-Walter Steinmeier
   http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,170361,00.html
     [The sarcastic wit in the letter may not make it through Babelfish
     intact, but it is quite funny]

What a sorry state of affairs. The risks posed by ignorant politicians may
yet be far more dangerous that the odd virus and software mistake.....

Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff, FHTW Berlin, Treskowallee 8, 10313 Berlin
+49-30-5019-2320  http://www.f4.fhtw-berlin.de/people/weberwu/




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