I find it heart-warming that at least in Germany the extreme leftists and the extreme right-wing can finally join together in robbing their country's citizens blind of liberties one by one.Wish our politicians could get along like that...
There aren't any methods for the legislature to override presidential veto in Germany?
I really am not sure how I feel about censorship of this kind. I think it's certainly within the rights of a country to investigate trade of goods and information in and out of the country and deny those trades that are illegal. It seems like they always try to do it behind a curtain with a super top secret list and such though, which certainly goes against any kind of open democratic accountability.
Rumor is that since the bill was introduced by the outgoing party but had already been passed, the new parliament couldn't just let it die - so the president sent it back requesting more information so it could die upon review.
If only our politicians in Denmark had thought about this.
Unfortunately they just implement all these crazy suggestions, and EU isn't much better.
Don't even get me started on the INFOSOC directive.
We already have such a list in Denmark, and actually the same technology has also been used to block other sites, that aren't exactly entirely legal or illegal.
For example allofmp3 is blocked, and the same with Piratebay.
Those two sites are in a bit of a gray area, regarding the legality.
Furthermore, what is on the list?
And how is it decided what gets on the list and not?
At present it is a organization Red Barnet (save the children) and the Police that are maintaining the list. But personally I haven't got much faith regarding save the children, they seem to be a bit paranoid in some regards.
Thrax
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I really am not sure how I feel about censorship of this kind. I think it's certainly within the rights of a country to investigate trade of goods and information in and out of the country and deny those trades that are illegal. It seems like they always try to do it behind a curtain with a super top secret list and such though, which certainly goes against any kind of open democratic accountability.
Interesting, if true.
Unfortunately they just implement all these crazy suggestions, and EU isn't much better.
Don't even get me started on the INFOSOC directive.
We already have such a list in Denmark, and actually the same technology has also been used to block other sites, that aren't exactly entirely legal or illegal.
For example allofmp3 is blocked, and the same with Piratebay.
Those two sites are in a bit of a gray area, regarding the legality.
Furthermore, what is on the list?
And how is it decided what gets on the list and not?
At present it is a organization Red Barnet (save the children) and the Police that are maintaining the list. But personally I haven't got much faith regarding save the children, they seem to be a bit paranoid in some regards.
I am using OpenDNS BTW.