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Deutsch: Britische Websitenbetreiber sollen „Trolle“ identifizieren

According to the new UK government proposals, website operators might soon have to identify users who have posted defamatory messages online, so that the victims of the respective messages may take legal action against the "trolls".

Presently in UK, a website operator is liable for everything that appears on its site and therefore it can be taken to court by anybody who claims something defamatory has been posted about him/her on the respective website.

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Deutsch: Google Transparenzbericht: Staatliche Zensur nimmt zu

According to Google’s latest bi-annual transparency report covering the July-December 2011 period, the number of governmental requests for users’ private data and content taking down has continued to grow.

The report shows the situation for each country separately and refers to the requests received from judiciary and executive power authorities, the request for content removal related to copyright infringements being dealt with separately.

Thus, the total number of requests has reached 11 936 in the second half of 2011

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Dear Mr Fjellner,

I am writing to you with regard to your recent blog post on ACTA.

First of all thank you for providing a clarification after you tabled an amendment for the International Trade Committee vote next week calling for ACTA to be ratified. We are heartened to read that you believe that it would be irresponsible to take a definitive position on ACTA in the absence of assurances from the Commission. You further explain that clarifications are needed on “one or two” paragraphs.

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Deutsch: Frankreich: YouTube haftet nicht für Inhalte

On 29 May 2012, in a case brought to court by TF1 against Google for its YouTube service, the High Court of Paris ruled that YouTube was just a hosting service and therefore not bound to police the content posted on it by its users.

TF1 sued Google in 2008 over a series of extracts from its programs posted on YouTube by its users.

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Schutz von Kindern im Internet sollte nicht mit Zensur ein...

Earlier this month, the UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced that his government would be considering default filtering of ‘adult content’ on the internet. The announcement came shortly after the release of a report by a cross-party parliamentary inquiry chaired by Claire Perry on online child protection. The report’s chief recommendation is the adoption of an opt-in filter for adult material on the internet as the best way to protect children online.

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Deutsch: Den Haag: Piratenpartei muss ihre Website zensurieren

On 10 May 2012, the district court of The Hague gave its verdict in the case of BREIN against the Dutch Pirate Party.

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Deutsch: Britischer High Court entscheidet, ISPs müssen The Pirate Bay sperren

The UK High Court has recently decided that The Pirate Bay (TPB) must be blocked by 5 UK internet service providers. No technical details were given in the ruling as, according to Mr Justice Arnold, the terms of the court order (the technical implementation measures) had been agreed to by the ISPs in question.

In November 2011, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) asked the group of the big ISPs to voluntarily block access to the site, after a court order to block Newzbin2 had been issued.

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Deutsch: Frankreich: Google neuerlich wegen Suggest-Funktion vor Gericht

Four French associations have decided to take Google to court for its automatic suggestion of the word “Jew” when searching for the names of several French personalities.

Union des étudiants juifs de France (UEJF – union of Jew students of France), J'accuse!-action internationale pour la justice (AIPJ- international action for justice), SOS Racisme and Mouvement contre le rasisme et pour l’amitie entre les peoples (MRAP- the movement against racism and for the friendship between peoples) consider th