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Kewl Video… I haven’t yet watched another iGNiTe video but the concept seams great!

2009: 09/01
POSTED BY: Mathias
CATEGORY: IT
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Hej, actually I wanted to write more about international politics. But we have elections this year coming up and therefore it is a lot going on in German politics lately. So I am going to talk about the Internet blockades, they are not only a topic in Germany at least.

The last few month the legislature tried to install a law to block web pages with child pornography. I already gave a short summery in another articel. The German law passed the Bundestag and the Bundesrat, our two chambers of legislative, and should have been signed this Friday by the Bundespräsident. Unlike Presidents or Primeminsters of other countrys he has only few rights. One of these few is, that he has to sign bills after they have been accepted by the Bundestag and Bundesrat in order to become law. But the new bill, which should be in order as of August the 1st, wasn’t signed, because it was not ready.

2009: 08/03
POSTED BY: Mathias
CATEGORY: German Politics
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The secret conspiracy of the green firewall

With this post I like to mention something I noticed on this weekend. Don’t take it too seriouse though.

Because it is the year of the upcomming Bundestags election, all parties are throwing in their funny statements of what the will do now to protect and serve the people. For example a few weeks ago the German Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth Ursula von der Leyen initiated a bill to block child pornography for german internet users. Mrs. Minister, the proud owner of seven childs herself, came, out of a sudden, to the conclusion that the turnover for child pornography, in the internet and because of the internet, had spiked in the last years.