IShareGossip site, a site for German teenagers who can post anonymously gossip and rumors, denounced Wednesday, March 30, the "censorship" which he considers to be after blocking by the major search engines in Germany. Inspired by the TV series Gossip Girl, where a teenager is an anonymous blog about the secrets of his comrades, the site lets leave comments on all German schools.
Few moderate, filled with xenophobic messages, defamatory or offensive, the site launched earlier this year acquired a strong reputation in a few weeks. But it is a fact that has propelled the various sites on the public square in Germany: the beating, by a score of people, a schoolboy of 17 who tried to defend a friend, victim of verbal abuse at the site.
Hospitalized, the young man is out of danger, but his attack has made a political issue iShareGossip crucial, and makes online harassment or "cyber-mobbing, a society must debate. BLOCKING TONE Alerted in February on the existence of the site and its potential danger, the ministry of the family had launched an investigation.
Faced with the outrage that followed the beating of a schoolboy, he asked his blocking in the major search engines. Germany, under an agreement "amicably", the authorities can ask search engines to remove the results, which are not legally obliged to do so, but generally apply the recommendations.
It is this block, which will take effect in April, which is screaming administrators - Anonymous - Site censorship. In a blog post on Wednesday, they list the search engines that continue to reference their site, including foreign versions of Google that are available in German. This blockage halftone satisfies no one.
Or associations of parents, who call for outright blocking of the site or the Ministry of the Family, which has established an emergency advice page intended for victims of harassment, nor the opposition, who refuses to recommend a thorough screening and would prefer a focus on prevention and education in new technologies.
Gossip Girl should, however, continue to be broadcast on cable and public television ORF 1, which has yet decided last week to deprogram some episodes of The Simpsons nuclear-related. In the meantime, German police had already collected 139 complaints against iShareGossip, and hundreds of others should follow.
No results so far: the site is maintained by a company registered in Latvia, and is hosted by PRQ, a hosting activist who defends a radical conception of freedom of expression - made famous because it houses such as The Pirate Bay Wikileaks or servers. 
Few moderate, filled with xenophobic messages, defamatory or offensive, the site launched earlier this year acquired a strong reputation in a few weeks. But it is a fact that has propelled the various sites on the public square in Germany: the beating, by a score of people, a schoolboy of 17 who tried to defend a friend, victim of verbal abuse at the site.
Hospitalized, the young man is out of danger, but his attack has made a political issue iShareGossip crucial, and makes online harassment or "cyber-mobbing, a society must debate. BLOCKING TONE Alerted in February on the existence of the site and its potential danger, the ministry of the family had launched an investigation.
Faced with the outrage that followed the beating of a schoolboy, he asked his blocking in the major search engines. Germany, under an agreement "amicably", the authorities can ask search engines to remove the results, which are not legally obliged to do so, but generally apply the recommendations.
It is this block, which will take effect in April, which is screaming administrators - Anonymous - Site censorship. In a blog post on Wednesday, they list the search engines that continue to reference their site, including foreign versions of Google that are available in German. This blockage halftone satisfies no one.
Or associations of parents, who call for outright blocking of the site or the Ministry of the Family, which has established an emergency advice page intended for victims of harassment, nor the opposition, who refuses to recommend a thorough screening and would prefer a focus on prevention and education in new technologies.
Gossip Girl should, however, continue to be broadcast on cable and public television ORF 1, which has yet decided last week to deprogram some episodes of The Simpsons nuclear-related. In the meantime, German police had already collected 139 complaints against iShareGossip, and hundreds of others should follow.
No results so far: the site is maintained by a company registered in Latvia, and is hosted by PRQ, a hosting activist who defends a radical conception of freedom of expression - made famous because it houses such as The Pirate Bay Wikileaks or servers.
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