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] http://www.bundespruefstelle.de/bpjm/information-in-english.html
--- On Sun, 25/7/10, wiki-list@phizz.demon.co.uk wiki-list@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
From: wiki-list@phizz.demon.co.uk wiki-list@phizz.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org 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-jugendgefa...
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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