Sometimes popular fears about digital technologies end up as government policy. Today's case in point comes from Germany, where that country's legislature approved a law allowing one police agency to block Web sites proffering child pornography.
The Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) is to administer the lists of sites to be blocked and the internet providers obliged to erect the secret censorship architecture for the government.
Hopefully German courts will chew this one up and spit it out.
Once again, the constellation of fears around children, sexuality, and digital technologies drives public panic.
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Posted by: Student Talk | June 25, 2009 at 07:41