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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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    The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
  2. America by kjd88 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I love the non-restrictive US.

  3. 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!