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[ NNSquad ] Germany preparing mandated ISP URL blocking
Yet another government Web blocking plan -- as usual under the "stop c-porn" banner. And as always, it will be utterly unsuccessful at stopping people who really want to access such material. It's increasingly obvious that the politicians involved don't really care if their "blocking" mechanisms are effective or not, or how much collateral damage they cause -- as long as they can tell the public that they've done *something*. [auto-translated by Google]: http://209.85.173.113/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,601440,00.html&usg=ALkJrhjkyI3kwPL70jqXj33NIomdmDmAAw A story is also circulating claiming that the same British porn censors who recently backed off over the decades-old "Virgin Killer" album cover photo, are now blocking large sections of The Internet Archive in an attempt to prevent access to imagery there. However, these reports appear to currently be rather sketchy. --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator