I was not aware of the Flickr situation in Germany. Are some of their servers based in Germany?
As far as I am aware, the German Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien[1] and the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (KJM) are limited in what they can do about internet offerings registered abroad. This is information which I received from them upon request. They told me all they can do is contact their counterparts in the respective country, express their concern, and ask for their support. A. [1] http://www.bundespruefstelle.de/bpjm/information-in-english.html --- On Sun, 25/7/10, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk <wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote: > From: wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk <wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for > Potentially-Objectionable Content > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Date: Sunday, 25 July, 2010, 10:54 > Andreas Kolbe wrote: > > to see its content. > > > > Yes, the devil is in the details, and in working out > the correct > > parameters for default IP access. Each language > version of any > > project could make its own determination in this > regard. Arabic, no > > Mohammed images; India, no sex and kissing; Dutch and > German, the > > full Monty with no censorship at all. Whatever. > > > From what I recall Germany is a problem because certain > imagery (porn, > violence) is NOT allowed unless you age verify. You cannot > have bukkake > images unless you have age verified. That was the problem > that flickr > had when they internationalized the site. The German law > requires that > if such images are accessible by minors then the site MUST > remove access > upon notification. > > http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/BGH-eBay-kann-zur-Sperrung-jugendgefaehrdender-Angebote-verpflichtet-werden-150320.html > > That probably means that for de.wikipedia all porn images > need to be > deleted, and that might even stretch into commons too. That > was flickr's > interpretation of the law which is why they made yahoo.de > accounts > restricted to viewing moderate images only. > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l