Fight against child pornography: Kauder battles against the suspension of Internet blocking

Block or delete? The question of how to combat child pornography on the Internet is best to deal on Thursday evening, the coalition committee. In advance of the CDU warned MPs Siegfried Kauder, the government ignoring the law. Osnabrück - Just before the first meeting of the coalition committee in the new year has prompted the chairman of the Legal Committee in the Bundestag, Siegfried Kauder (CDU), in the controversy over Internet censorship against child pornography to take swift action.


The adoption of the Federal Interior Ministry, with which the law against child pornography on the Internet was partially suspended, be unconstitutional, "said Kauder the New Osnabruecker newspaper in its Thursday edition. This condition must be terminated immediately. "The executive authority bound by the basic law to uphold the law," said the CDU politician.

Since the adoption of the Federal Interior Ministry, according to Kauder child pornography will be deleted, the law also provided for Internet-blocking but not applied. A practice that the association of German Internet Economy (eco) has just celebrated a major success. On Tuesday, the association announced that 99.4 percent of children reported by the eco-porn sites were deleted.

Kauder, but keeps the suspension of Internet censorship in favor of the deletion method for a clear constitutional violation. In addition, the federal government to snub when they arbitrarily correct acts of Parliament, CDU-rights expert criticized in the Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung. Kauder: "It can not be that the government ignored laws by all citizens but of course expected to adhere to the law." Kauder therefore turned in a letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU).

For him, "there are only two constitutional solutions," he said. Either the current law will be applied immediately or completely create the rules of the federal child pornography-blocking by a repeal law again in the world. "Only one is not safe," Kauder said: "The government can not be longer shirk the rule of law a clean decision." The locks are in child porn, according to government sources about the coalition committee on Thursday evening in Berlin.

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