German Government Calls for Citizens to Sue Google for Sedition and Antisemitism
German Ministry of the Interior speaker Christian Sachs has called for citizens to sue Google (Germany) as the legal owners of video platform YouTube for violation of laws banning public distribution of neonazi material.
Seeing that YouTube has ignored over 100 pertinent cease and desist applications by various plaintiffs, the German government feels that this is the only appropriate step to enforce rule of law.
By German law, it is illegal to publish material glamorizing nazi ideology and antisemitism as well as any denegation or playing down of the holocaust.
The Central Council of Jews in Germany has announced it is considering similar steps. Council vice-president Salomon Korn: “I expect  both the public prosecutor and, should the need arise, the federal government to stand up against this.”
In an interview with German public tv’s political magazine Report Mainz (scheduled for broadcast on 2007-08-27 at 9:45 PM local), Dieter Wiefelspütz, speaker for home policy of Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD, currently constituting the government in coalition with the Christian Democratic parties CDU/CSU) states: “This has to be stopped. It’s a scandal that something like this is possible in Germany.”
According to Report Mainz, YouTube features nazi propaganda flicks such as Jud Süß as well as illegal music videos of such groups as Kommando Freisler and Landser.
Via heise online.
[Keywords: Google, Germany, YouTube, neonazis, law suit, government, antisemitism ]
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