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Some blogs in Germany have looked a bit closer at a filter-programme that is meant to protect children from pornography and depictions of violence, but is protecting them from politics, especially left or remotely left politics, as well. The Green party is banned, so is the “taz”, a mildly left daily.

The programme is freeware by an organization that can cash tax-deductible donations. That’s a scandal.

Almost every blog I like is listed, including many sites in English.

Opendemocracy is off-limits for everybody under 14.

“Jugendschutzprogramm.de” welcomes information about suspicious sites they might have forgotten. That’s interesting. Americanthinker.com… I must choose a reason from a list and “stupid” isn’t listed, but “extremism”. That was easy, and they are promising they will check the site.

Anybody having more suggestions for really bad reading?



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Sure! I'd recommend Salon.com and New York Times as both extremist and embarrasingly poor journalism, although I'm sure they would appeal to you.

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I just tried to enter Salon and NYT out of sheer gratefulness of at last getting an answer, but they’ve changed the system a bit, it’s no longer so easy. They have learned a bit, it seems.

Your stinker was banned for 2 weeks by the way, but isn’t any longer. You can imagine that I was not the only one who fed them with a few ideas what to ban and they hadn’t got enough capacity to check everything. At first they swallowed everything and then they broke down. So much for the funny side of this thing.

Can you tell me why I couldn’t add my screenshots showing the stinker being banned? They looked nice, but when I posted they were kicked out.

What I still don’t find funny is the fact that this programme, which is funded with taxpayer’s money, bans political sites under the pretence of protecting children from adult-only stuff.