Country: Germany

City: Berlin

As you may see, the initial upload of the video was taken from youtube. You may ask yourself why it has been removed? Does the owner (or copyright holder) of the video not want it to be published? No, there is censorship happening on youtube!

But as you may have guessed, it showed up again quite quickly:

Peaceful protesters were beat up unprovoked by the German Police.

Country: Germany

“The attack on the freedom” is a new book (only awayable in German) by Juli Zeh on monitoring data on the Internet. “One-sided and polemical” the author cites her own work. But provocation is the best way to readers, the risk posed by the monitoring state to keep in mind.

Country: Germany

ISP: Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone/Arcor, Hansenet/Alice, Telefonica/O2,  Kabel Deutschland

Reason: Child pornography

German Government forces ISPs to put web filters
Germany’s government has passed a draft law for censorship of domains hosting content related to child pornography. A secret list of IPs will be created by the BKA, Germany’s federal police; any attempted access to addresses on this list is blocked, logged (the draft seems to contradict press reports on this point) and redirected to a government page featuring a large stop sign. The law has not yet passed the assembly, however five of the largest ISPs have already agreed to voluntarily submit to the process even without a law in place. Critics argue that with the censorship infrastructure in place, the barrier for blocking access for various other reasons is very low. The fact that the current block can easily be circumvented may lead to more effective technologies to be used in the future. There are general elections as well as elections in several of the states later this year.” (sorces: yro.slashdot.org, and edri.org)

The censorship of the internet in germany startet in april 2009.