I was not aware of the Flickr situation in Germany. Are some of their servers based in
Germany?
As far as I am aware, the German Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien[1] and the
Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (KJM) are limited in what they can do about internet
offerings registered abroad. This is information which I received from them upon request.
They told me all they can do is contact their counterparts in the respective country,
express their concern, and ask for their support.
A.
[1]
--- On Sun, 25/7/10, wiki-list(a)phizz.demon.co.uk <wiki-list(a)phizz.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
From: wiki-list(a)phizz.demon.co.uk
<wiki-list(a)phizz.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
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Date: Sunday, 25 July, 2010, 10:54
Andreas Kolbe wrote:
to see its content.
Yes, the devil is in the details, and in working out
the correct
parameters for default IP access. Each language
version of any
project could make its own determination in this
regard. Arabic, no
Mohammed images; India, no sex and kissing; Dutch
and
German, the
full Monty with no censorship at all. Whatever.
From what I recall Germany is a problem because certain
imagery (porn,
violence) is NOT allowed unless you age verify. You cannot
have bukkake
images unless you have age verified. That was the problem
that flickr
had when they internationalized the site. The German law
requires that
if such images are accessible by minors then the site MUST
remove access
upon notification.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/BGH-eBay-kann-zur-Sperrung-jugendgef…
That probably means that for de.wikipedia all porn images
need to be
deleted, and that might even stretch into commons too. That
was flickr's
interpretation of the law which is why they made yahoo.de
accounts
restricted to viewing moderate images only.
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