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

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.