Sunday, November 29, 2009

Keine Kinderpornografie für die Deutschen...

No child pornographie for the Germans...

...or not?

The German President Horst Köhler has refused to sign in a controversial law regarding child pornography in Germany, stating that he needed "supplementary information."

The law would ban and censure it on the internet. However, this could also block many innocent websites as well, which would end up breaching the country's Constitution. In addition to this, it could pave the way for various groups in the country to push blocking, well, whatever they feel is offensive on the web, escalating the amount of censorship and causing a significant amount of controversy.   


The law isn't going away though. Since it's already been passed by both houses of the Parliament, what Köhler has done will amount to merely stalling the law for the time being, but sooner or later, he will have to face it again.

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