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German Search Engines Self-Regulating

Posted by Zonk on from the showing-initiative-is-good? dept.

Philipp Lenssen writes "Heise reports the German search engines Google.de, Lycos Europe, MSN Germany, AOL Germany, Yahoo.de, T-Online and T-Info today in Berlin announced the forming of a self-regulating organization (Babelfish version) under the hood of the German FSM (the "Voluntary Self-Control for Multimedia Service Providers"). Their combined goal is to streamline the process of censoring content ruled illegal under German law, so that a user's search results are stripped from such items."

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  1. From? by digidave · · Score: 5, Funny

    "a user's search results are stripped from such items"

    So... it only returns the illegal matches?

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    1. Re:From? by js7a · · Score: 2, Funny

      In Soviet Germany, illegal content strips YOU!

  2. America by kjd88 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I love the non-restrictive US.

    1. Re:America by E_elven · · Score: 2, Funny

      FIRE, fire, everybody out!!!

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    2. Re:America by Maxwell'sSilverLART · · Score: 2, Funny

      the "gay agenda" (whatever *that* is)

      Well, you're in luck; I just happen to have a copy: The Homosexual Agenda

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    3. Re:America by slavemowgli · · Score: 2, Funny

      Thanks! Now I finally know what I'm up to.

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  3. Content ruled illegal under German law by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So poop sex and fisting will still be available then?

  4. Re:.de by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    "I can do anything you can't stop me from doing"

    Does that include putting an extra apostrophe in ITS???

  5. Re:Define "crime" by gowen · · Score: 2, Funny
    The song "I can't drive 55" (1980s crapola music, but nevertheless) arguably incites one to commit a crime.
    Your Honor, my defendant Mr Hagar would like to point out:
    i) at no time does he encourage anyone to exceed the speed limit. He merely observes that he cannot.
    ii) Mr Hagar is aware of his anti-social disorder, and suggests to the judge that they
    Post my face wanted dead or alive
    Take my license, all that jive
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  6. Re:Let me just say... by Otter · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yeah, "Voluntary Self-Control for Multimedia Service Providers" maps to *three* German words? I would have thought it would simply be Voluntarselfkontrolmultimedservicprovergemeinschaf t.

    (Or something like that. I don't actually speak German.)

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  7. Re:Sorry by vanman2004 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Which half of the population doesn't have nipples?

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  8. Reminds me of Family Guy by hsmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    Brian: Yeah, uh, about your pamphlet, uh, I'm not seeing anything about German history between 1939 and 1945. There's just a big gap.
    German Tour Guide: Everyone was on vacation! On your left is Munich's first city hall erected in 15--
    Brian: Wait, wait. What are you talking about? Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and--
    German Tour Guide: We were invited! Punch was served!
    Brian: You can't just ignore those years. Thomas Mann fled to America because of Nazism's stranglehold on Germany.
    German Tour Guide: Nope. Nope. He left to manage a Dairy Queen.
    Brian: A Dairy Queen? That's preposterous.
    German Tour Guide: I will hear no more insinuations about the German people! Nothing bad happened!

    1. Re:Reminds me of Family Guy by uradu · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yet another example for why I don't find the Family Guy all that funny. This exchange pales in comparison to Fawlty Towers:

      German: Will you stop talking about the war?
      Basil: But you started it.
      German: No, we didn't.
      Basil: Yes, you did--you invaded Poland.