[Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

[Andreas Kolbe]

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 at phizz.demon.co.uk <wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> From: wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk <wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at 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-jugendgefaehrdender-Angebote-verpflichtet-werden-150320.html
> 
> 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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