Even More Restriction For German Internet

Posted by kdawson on Sunday August 2, 2009 @05:55PM from the nose-of-the-camel dept.

tikurion writes "It's only been a few weeks since the law dubbed Zugangserschwerungsgesetz (access impediment law) was passed in the German Parliament despite over 140,000 signatures of people opposed to it. The law will go into effect in mid-October 2009. Now Minister for Family Affairs Ursula von der Leyen implied in an interview that she is planning on extending the reach of the law, claiming '...or else the great Internet is in danger of turning into a lawless range of chaos, where you're allowed to bully, insult, and deceive limitlessly.' More on golem.de via Google translate (here is the German original)."

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Re:Minister for Family Affairs by DNS-and-BIND · 2009-08-03 01:15 · Score: 0, Troll

Yeah...you do realize Orwell was a right-wing nutbag, right? His 1984 was squarely aimed at...the commies! *shock* *horror* a world with no rich people, whatever are we to do?

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Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!