Please see below, as well as (German) legislation: 
https://www.bundesrat.de/SharedDocs/drucksachen/2019/0001-0100/33-19.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=1.

Bigger picture likely to be behind as pointed out some days ago.

Shit like this adding to tightening police forces' legislations in various 
Federal States in not-so Good Old Germany.

--
Herbert Karl Mathé

m...@hkmathe.de
PGP B9BF953500452875  https://www.hkmathe.de/pub_key_16-07-09.txt
@hkmathe
Beethovenstr. 13  60325 Frankfurt  Germany


Begin forwarded message:

Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 22:39:47 +0100
From: Herbert Karl Mathé <m...@hkmathe.de>
To: niftybunny <ab...@to-surf-and-protect.net>
Cc: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] german plans on banning TOR


Let's be pragmatic:

There's "anti-darkweb" propaganda been quite a while going on, mainly by 
Federal Criminal Police Office, backed up by Christian (so-called) Democrats, 
and the Nazi party, sure, pointing out like lots of children's lives could be 
saved, or saved from being abused, resp., when vanquishing "The Darkweb". 
Trucks (lorries), knifes, or similar potentially lethal objects are not on 
their agenda. Police spokespersons around the clock complaining being 
substantially disadvantaged - should say: retarded???

Unsurprisingly, police forces in any legislation are not neutral, these do not 
at all mirror society and its inherent diversity. Plus, police forces very 
indirectly are serving the public, with any misdemeanor or assaults to be 
prosecuted not before afterwards by taking complex, costly and risky legal 
actions, never immediately, or right in place. That makes a huge difference.

What this legislation is very likely ending up is various courts ruling through 
verdicts on eventually shutting down specific sites. These verdicts might 
easily appear as being random, which is due to immense lack of in-depth 
knowledge in related matters (see file sharing dissuasions by dedicated law 
firms being backed by courts having difficulties understanding IP addresses), 
also due to each and every court ruling independent which makes it like 
gambling, these courts at the same time being highly susceptible to what is 
believed by them to be public opinion.

The latter is what's being made up right with this legislative initiative, 
leveraging Tor Project for staging some threat model. Cynically enough, threat 
(by The Onion) again is from foreign, just like for some time refugees had been 
said to be (evil propaganda which obviously, and thank god, did not fully work 
out).

In phase of weakness, it's always the outlandish being plead guilty, being 
abused to deviate from domestic, and home-made, self-made failure.

No facts yet, just some reflected opinions - as soon as such legislation is out 
it'll be much harder to defend liberty. It's not about paragraphs, or bits and 
bytes, it's about freedom and democracy.

Free press, and journalists as individuals will as consequence be under heavy 
suspicion for cooperating with elements of Dark Web.

If Germany falls...

--
Herbert Karl Mathé

m...@hkmathe.de
PGP B9BF953500452875  https://www.hkmathe.de/pub_key_16-07-09.txt
@hkmathe
Beethovenstr. 13  60325 Frankfurt  Germany




On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 21:19:23 +0100
niftybunny <ab...@to-surf-and-protect.net> wrote:

> > "Zum anderen ist die Zugänglichmachung jedes
> > internetbasierten Angebots, das auf die Begehung jeglicher
> > Straftaten gerichtet ist, gleichermaßen strafwürdig."      
> 
> 
> Thats every ISP on the world. Every ISP on the world lets you connect to the 
> internet. What they want to do is outlaw the running of markets who promote 
> drugs, weapons and cheese pizza.
> Thats already the case. The just want it in one law so they don't have to 
> process several accusations.
> 
> I read it weeks ago and Tor will not be outlawed in this case.
>     
> > "Betreiber, deren Angebote ohne entsprechende Zielrichtung zur Förderung 
> > von Straftaten genutzt
> > werden, vom Tatbestand ausgenommen. “      
> 
> Ebay will not get fucked, only if you have a market which prime directive is 
> to sell drugs, weapons and CP.
>     
> > Referenced to § 129 StGB in the text: reference is made to membership in a 
> > criminal organization. The Tor project will then be declared as such.      
> 
> Dear god … 
> 
>     
> > On 6. Mar 2019, at 20:35, Olaf Grimm <jeep...@posteo.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Some contradictions in the recommendations of the committee:
> > 
> > Take a look on page 6 and 7 (in german, translation of the sentences below).
> > 
> > "Zum anderen ist die Zugänglichmachung jedes
> > internetbasierten Angebots, das auf die Begehung jeglicher
> > Straftaten gerichtet ist, gleichermaßen strafwürdig."
> > 
> > "Second, the availability of each
> > Internet-based offer, based on the commission of any
> > Criminal offenses is equally punishable."
> > 
> > "Betreiber, deren Angebote ohne entsprechende Zielrichtung zur Förderung 
> > von Straftaten genutzt
> > werden, vom Tatbestand ausgenommen. "
> > 
> > "Operators whose offers are used without appropriate target direction for 
> > the promotion of criminal offenses
> > be excluded from the facts."
> > 
> > https://www.bundesrat.de/SharedDocs/drucksachen/2019/0001-0100/33-1-19.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=1
> >  
> > <https://www.bundesrat.de/SharedDocs/drucksachen/2019/0001-0100/33-1-19.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=1>
> > 
> > I think that's the first step to forbid Tor. The text indicates operators. 
> > Is my relay abroad illegal because I'm German?
> > Referenced to § 129 StGB in the text: reference is made to membership in a 
> > criminal organization. The Tor project will then be declared as such.
> > 
> > Olaf
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Am 06.03.19 um 15:47 schrieb Volker Mink:      
 [...]  
> > 
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