And another censorship tool installed. The question is: from when are politically left-wing opinions considered development-inhibiting? From when is criticism of the state regarded as development-inhibiting? When does satire cease to be an art form and start being considered a threat to youth?
It's so cheap to justify such censorship tools on the grounds of restricting access to pornography. Nobody will seriously protest and want to present themselves as a potential pig, right?
What actually endangers youth more - the availability of pornography (or rather the availability of pornography distributed in Germany - hard international systems help little with that) or the existence of censorship tools?
And another question: from when will the Regierungspräsidium Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia, with reference to youth protection regulations, demand the blocking of masses of sites?
Hard pornography is - at least in most cases - misogynistic. Wouldn't it be time to combat the cause of the distorted image of women in society, instead of making ineffective attempts to censor the symptoms? Education and enlightenment, anyone?
At heise online news there's the original article.