On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:51 AM, <syr...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 07:51:27 GMT, David Gerard wrote: > > > http://newteevee.com/2009/04/20/achtung-youtube-germany-proposes-federal-id-checks-for-online-video-sites/ > > > > German readers - how much of a danger is this? Is Commons enough of a > "video site"? > > > > - d. > > Not much. It is just a campaign of the Junge Union NRW to get in the media. > Like every German political youth organisation, they have to make wired > statements, to get any media coverage. > > syrcro > > Just to clarify: There is no proposition from any party in any parliament in Germany for this. It was a press release by the youth organization of the CDU in North Rhine - Westphalia (the Junge Union NRW, as mentioned by syncro). Some news sources seem to have picked up that Merkel thought of the idea to be good - I can't find any direct quote or citation for this.
They are however going to propose this at a state level party congress in early May, let's see how the CDU members in general react. The leader (Sven Volmering) of this subgroup has also called ego-shooters, popularly called "Killergames" (Killerspiele) in the German media and politicians as of recently, a "perverted freetime activity". And by the way: Another thing to remember is that it's election year here in Germany, so you can expect to see a lot more weird press releases being blown up into major stories - especially ones from youth organisations. Ian [[User:Poeloq]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
