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Germany Builds Infrastructure To Block The Internet

By Intellectual Property Watch

The German Parliament on Thursday evening passed legislation that obliges internet service providers (ISPs) to filter websites allegedly containing child abuse material, by a vote of 389 to 146. The vote followed fierce debate about the secret filtering list to be put together by the German Federal Police and transmitted to ISPs once a day with only occasional checks by a five-member monitoring body. Opposition parties joined civil rights organisations in warning that Germany is introducing blocking architecture that was extensible and could be used to ?censor? other content without due process.

Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on June 19, 2009 (boomark / email).