Wikileaks published the censorlist of a German provider named Lycos, which ceased to exist in November 2008. It is quite interesting what Lycos all filtered, as it’s quite clear to see that it definitely does not only include outright criminal websites, but also legal sites, or at some points in a forum only a certain thread. Keep in mind though that the list is almost a year old.
First and foremost, the internet is not dead in Germany, but it has been significantly shot last Thursday, the 18th June 2009. And this could lead to its death. What happened is following:
A politician named Ursula von der Leyen campaigned to install web blocks against child pornography. While the name of that package sounds honourable, if you look behind the proposed system, it is nothing else than a huge internet censorship infrastructure.
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