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Germany Legislates For Mandatory Web Filters
1/16/2009

An unsigned reader writes "Germany's dean for Families has announced a jurisdictive initiative to force ISPs to instrument a government-mandated block list (in English), which will be updated daily. The BKA (Germany's equivalent of the FBI) will be in charge of generating and advancement the list. As usual, this is being brought in under the 'fight child porn' guise. The missionary is quoted as saying: 'We must not water down the problem' in reply to being challenged that this law and cyberbanking components could be used to censor other content. She then went on to say: 'I can't know what wishes and plans future governments will develop.' She has agreed the decree of the while congress is the body of people who make or amend or repeal laws with the home bible thumper man and the wave mechanics minister, which in German bloc rubric


copyrights:cite this source synonym collection v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico publishing group terms means it's pretty much a done deal."

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