On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:51 AM, <syrcro(a)gmx.de> wrote:
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 07:51:27 GMT, David Gerard
wrote:
http://newteevee.com/2009/04/20/achtung-youtube-germany-proposes-federal-id…
German readers - how much of a danger is this? Is Commons enough of a
"video
site"?
- d.
Not much. It is just a campaign of the Junge Union NRW to get in the media.
Like every German political youth organisation, they have to make wired
statements, to get any media coverage.
syrcro
Just to clarify: There is no proposition from any party in any parliament in
Germany for this. It was a press release by the youth organization of the
CDU in North Rhine - Westphalia (the Junge Union NRW, as mentioned by
syncro). Some news sources seem to have picked up that Merkel thought of the
idea to be good - I can't find any direct quote or citation for this.
They are however going to propose this at a state level party congress in
early May, let's see how the CDU members in general react.
The leader (Sven Volmering) of this subgroup has also called ego-shooters,
popularly called "Killergames" (Killerspiele) in the German media and
politicians as of recently, a "perverted freetime activity".
And by the way: Another thing to remember is that it's election year here in
Germany, so you can expect to see a lot more weird press releases being
blown up into major stories - especially ones from youth organisations.
Ian
[[User:Poeloq]]