[Foundation-l] YouPorn in Germany: Another ugly legal case

Fri Oct 26 18:47:55 UTC 2007

On 22/10/2007, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 10/22/07, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Youporn had the specific problem of providing hardcore pornography
> > available to people without age verification. This is a problem we are
> > actually not faced with
>
> Of course not. The risk here is of a slippery slope. If this goes
> through, ThePirateBay.org is next - and then _every_ website will be a
> potential target under German law, whether it targets a German
> speaking audience or not. There's a potential for things to get really
> ugly for German Internet users.
>

Not really. If you live outside the US your internet will if not
already being censored will be over the next decade.

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geni