Zum Thema "Freie Presse"

Zeitgenosse, Friday, 31.08.2007, 16:06 (vor 6685 Tagen) @ Hemsut

Jetzt hab ich's. Ich habe die Seite nur kurz überflogen. Auszug:

a. Freedom of Speech and Press
The law provides for freedom of speech and of the press; while the government generally respected these rights, it imposed some limits aimed at groups deemed extremist.

Distribution of the propaganda of proscribed organizations is illegal, as are statements inciting racial hatred, endorsing Nazism, and denying the Holocaust. Following an unsuccessful effort to win political asylum abroad, Germar Rudolf was deported to Germany, where he was put on trial in November, in Mannheim, for "representing the Holocaust as a myth." Rudolf had been convicted for Holocaust denial in 1995 but fled the country. The trial was underway at year's end.

Apart from these limitations, an active independent media expressed a wide variety of views without government restriction.

Internet Freedom

Access to the Internet was unrestricted in most respects, and most individuals and groups could engage in the peaceful expression of views via the Internet, including by e‑mail. However, there were some limitations on access and expression.

Federal and state laws permitted OPCs to monitor the private e‑mails and chatrooms of individuals and groups under surveillance, but such activities were subject to oversight by an independent commission elected by a parliamentary control body (see section 2.f.). Access to such "prohibited" material as child pornography and Nazi propaganda was forbidden by law. Authorities also sought to ban the storing of such material on servers in the country.

A wide spectrum of society had access to the Internet at such places as homes, businesses, schools, and libraries.

Several Internet providers have sued the state of North Rhine‑Westphalia over a state ordinance requiring them to block access to certain Web sites determined to be promoting right‑wing extremism. In most of these cases, various administrative courts in the state rejected the complaints, although one was partially successful based on technical factors. At year's end two of the suits were pending before the Aachen Administrative Court.

Quelle: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78814.htm

Sorry, ich kann das jetzt aus Zeitgründen nicht übersetzen.

Gruß

Zeitgenosse