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Google Germany (and others) do not list banned addresses anymore

Corsin Camichel [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, February 23, 2006
18 years ago

As reported today, Google, Yahoo and MSN (Microsoft) do not list internet addresses that are banned by the "Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien (BPjM)".
This is based on volunteering, no goverment decided that.

/pd [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

hey corsin, do you have a linky ?

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

A report of this in German is here, and some other places...
http://de.internet.com/index.php?id=2041463&section=Marketing-News

Apparently, the decision of Google and others to voluntarily self-censor in Germany (based on the list of the BPjM) goes back to February last year. Stormfront and others have been censored for a longer time, though. Maybe the new BPjM-triggered self-censorship is just expanding, as the cases of Ogrish.com and others show.

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