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

[Gabe Johnson]

On 10/22/07, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> >

As long as we don't have assets there, we can treat it like this:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2znnxf

Of course "Wikipedia blocked in Germany" would probably be a
policy-changing headline. Maybe. ~~~~

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