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

[Michael Bimmler]

On 10/22/07, Gabe Johnson <gjzilla at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?) ~~~~
>

The toolserver is in Amsterdam, at the Kennisnet cluster. (I'm not
commenting on whether this is relevant at all...just fact correcting
;-)

Michael

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