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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."

5 of 465 comments (clear)

  1. last night by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is it just me, or was slashdot going down like an off-color simile last night?

  2. Self adjustment of the search machine offerers by GillBates0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    LOL! OMFG!! Funny funny funny!

    Sorry...babelfish translations get to me everytime.

    *sniff*.

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    An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
  3. In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hiter = Bush

  4. Soviet Russia by SUB7IME · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn, I thought this was going to be a real case of 'In Soviet Russia, the search engines operate themselves (and you)'.

  5. Re:And as always msn is a shining example by pclminion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    His sarcasm went by at Mach 6, apparently...