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Germany Won't Block Access to Foreign Nazi Sites

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Germany Won't Block Access to Foreign Nazi Sites

The nation's Internet security chief says it's unrealistic to try to shield citizens from non-German Web sites.

By Reuters

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany, which has some of the world's toughest laws banning race hate propaganda, has conceded defeat to the cross- border reach of the Internet and given up trying to bar access to foreign-based neo-Nazi sites.

Deputy Interior Minister Brigitte Zypries, the government's Internet security chief, said this week in an interview with Reuters that it was unrealistic to try to shield Germans from foreign Web sites, even though police do aim to stop homegrown Nazi and other offensive material, such as child pornography.

"It's right to act against right-wing radicalism but it is wrong to create hysteria," she said.

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