The real problem (Score 1)

The real problem isn't even censoring internet sites with illegal content - technically I'm not even sure that can be called censorship - hence bringing a drug dealer to court isn't censorship either. The problem is the NOT bringing anything to court. Here in germany we're (sadly only supposed) to have the 'govermental' power divided in three tiers, those who make the laws, those who decide / interpret the laws (judges and courts), and those who execute the laws (the police). The main problem with this new law is that those who execute the law, the police, who put up a site on the block list, is also the power that interprets the law since they decide which site is blocked and which isn't. To come back to the example with drug dealers, this would equal the police shooting people on sight because they think they are drug dealers and this being legal. The problem is not blocking websides that are illegal, the problem is that there no judge, no court, will ever see the sites and get to give a judgement if the site is actually illegal or not. The list is secret and there isn't even a mechanism that controlls the list once it is in place. So as I see it: Blocking sites with illegal conten't (in this case child pornography) is not censorship but it is carrying out a law. But doing it WITHOUT a court and a judge, without making the process transperent, without the chance of a side to defend themselfs if the claims are false, that is a kind of censorship that is worthy the finest dictatorships. Best regards, Licenser - a very very annoyed german.