Censorship in Germany... even stronger laws demanded

A couple of groups have demanded that the planned censorship laws should be made even stronger:

German article at netzpolitik.org.

One of these groups is the "Interessenverband des Video- und Medienfachhandels in Deutschland e.V. (IVD)" roughly translated to
"Interest group of Video and Media marketing in Germany". The others are mostly child care groups, many of them closely related
in some way to the politicians that brought this law onto the table in the first place.

The PDF published requests that (among others):

- The law should not directly state the technical nature of the blocking mechanisms. (So it can be adapted to future technologies?!).
- A more powerful blocking mechanism than pure DNS- Blocking should be used. (Hey, how about just shutting down the servers, that's pretty good, and we wouldn't need a new law to do it?).
- Laws should be changed to state that everyone below 18 is considered a "child". (In Germany, this currently is at 14, where the age between 14, 16 and 18 is handled differently).
- The list of blocked sites remains to be secret. (If the content could simply be deleted or completely blocked, there would be no reason to keep this list secret, aside from hindering people to find out that also non- illegal sites are put on the list).

Especially having a group in there that is definitely interested in abusing this list to fight copyright issues shows that this blocking law will be used for other sites than it was intended for!