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

[Ray Saintonge]

geni wrote:
> On 27/10/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>> Not really. If you live outside the US your internet will if not
>>> already being censored will be over the next decade.
>>>       
>> {{fact}}
>>
>> Are you suggesting the US is the only country in the world that
>> doesn't and won't censor the internet? I very much doubt you have a
>> reliable source for that...
>>     
> Due to the US constitution it is rather hard to do. By comparison EU
> countries often have a selection of laws such as anti holocaust denial
> laws that could be used as a basis for internet censorship. I admit
> that I don't know much about the situation in japan.
Some US administrations have been known to act in ways that are 
forbidden by the Constitution.  This is theoretically illegal, but by 
the time the illegality has been proven the real damage will have been 
achieved.

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