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German State Alters DNS To Censor Web Sites [updated]
Rabenwolf writes: "In the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the first ISP (ISIS Multimedia) has given in to pressure from the state government and has started to block foreign websites with supposedly "illegal content" by changing the corresponding DNS entries. ISIS customers trying to access these sites are redirected to the website of the local government. ISPs in North Rhine-Westphalia will have to pay a fine if they continue to provide access to sites with "illegal content" through their DNS servers. It's not as bad as China or Saudi-Arabia, but it makes you think... An article from the heise newsticker is here, and if you don't sprechen Deutsch, Google might help." Update: 11/22 15:23 GMT by T : As sqrt points out, this report is misleading: "A single technican altered the DNS Entries to demonstrate it is possible. His changes were already reversed. Heise already posted a new story about this today."
Dude, take a look at the real history. The Nazi's didn't get in power by killing Jews, they got in power by fixing a totaly f*cked up goverment and many people supported that. It was after they were in power when some of the high command decided they could get away with treating many ethnic groups any way they liked. The Nazis did do quite a few things (they promoted engineering and science and pioneered many of the techniques we still use today) that were good for Germany and the world and this mentality of "if it involves nazi's it must be bad" is quite stupid as it hides how they got in power in the first place and the more that stays hidden, the more it is likely to repeat its self.