[Foundation-l] YouPorn in Germany: Another ugly legal case

[Gabe Johnson]

On 10/22/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Arcor, a major German ISP, is being forced to censor access to
> YouPorn.com because it doesn't comply with German requirements for
> restricting access to adult-only websites:
>
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/97676
>
> The Landgericht Frankfurt has confirmed a preliminary injunction. This
> will still go through the courts for a while, but Arcor has already
> censored the website from its customers (and, in the first attempt to
> do so, also censored 3.5 million other random sites that were
> redirected from the same IP address!).
>
> This could become a pretty terrible precedent turning the German
> Internet into even more of a legal minefield than it already is. :-(
> At some point we may be faced with the choice to either apply a number
> of Germany-specific restrictions on our content, or have all Wikimedia
> projects be censored in Germany. I'd be inclined towards the latter.
>
> --
> Toward Peace, Love & Progress:
> Erik
>
> DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of
> the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
>


Treat it like we do China, I would think. Unless we have any servers
there? (toolserver, I think?) ~~~~

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