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WYD: "No Web Censorship in Press Center" |
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 17 August 2005 |
Web Pages which the press could access from the press center of World
Youth Day were filtered at least until Aug. 16,
stern.de-reporters wrote. They wrote that WYD speaker Matthias Kopp
could not name the criteria of the filtered pages. Not only
pornographic pages but also the web pages of organisations like
"homosexuals and church" (Homosexuelle und Kirche) could not be reached.
On
Aug 19, Kopp has denied in a press statement that web access was
censored. He stated a "software by Siemens" was used to block pages
with racist or pornographic content and e-commerce sites, but that the
a list of words for the filter had apparently also blocked some other
pages - a mistake that was according to Kopp abolished "days ago".
stern.de had reported that in contrast to the filtered pages in the
press center, on the WYD terminals in the internet café for pilgrims,
everything that is on the web could be found and read - from
Nazi-propaganda to porn and pope-critical pages which the press should
obviously not be able to read.
The Full report on stern.de (in German)
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 21 August 2005 )
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