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... except from 11 pm - 6 am > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 11:21:21 -0500 > From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [From Risks Digest 21.81, http://www.CSL.sri.com/risksinfo.html --DBM] > > --- > > Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:02:30 +0100 > From: Debora Weber-Wulff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: "Late-night" Internet-porno-ban > > German officials are apparently attempting to prove that the > PISA results > (Germany is pretty much at the bottom of the pack in regards > to education > world-wide) are true and anyone, no matter how ignorant, can > be a politician > in Germany: > > The German Federal Government and the State governments have > agreed to new > measures for protecting youth from pornography on the > Internet: according to > the "Financial Times Deutschland" > (http://www.ftd.de/pw/de/FTDPRAR3MUC.html) > all such content is banned from 11 p.m. until 6 a.m. > > No, this is not April Fools' Day. Really. The German > government seems to > think that when it is 11 p.m. in Germany, it is 11 p.m. > everywhere else. And > that all those XXX folks on the Internet will happily turn > off the sleaze > during the German day when the kiddies are awake. > > This has of course caused an uproar amongst those in the know. > Spiegel-on-line wrote an open letter to the guy in charge of > publishing this > nonsense, Frank-Walter Steinmeier > http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,170361,00.html > [The sarcastic wit in the letter may not make it through > Babelfish > intact, but it is quite funny] > > What a sorry state of affairs. The risks posed by ignorant > politicians may > yet be far more dangerous that the odd virus and software mistake..... > > Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff, FHTW Berlin, Treskowallee 8, > 10313 Berlin > +49-30-5019-2320 http://www.f4.fhtw-berlin.de/people/weberwu/ > > >
