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German child-protection regulators are on the verge of blocking one of the world’s largest pornographic websites. The officials are set to issue a blocking order to the country’s biggest internet service providers saying a pornographic website, believed to be xHamster, should be made inaccessible to Germany’s 83 million people.
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The blocking order, which may be issued in the coming weeks by the Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (
Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz in German, or KJM), follows a failure by xHamster to introduce age-verification checks to stop under-18s from accessing pornography. The order is the latest salvo in a two-year campaign by regulators to compel all pornographic websites accessible in Germany to implement age-verification checks.
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As hate speech online increases, so has the resistance
From international campaigns to grassroots Facebook groups, many targeted by hate speech are finding new ways to fight it.
Germany s Federal Agency for Civic Education describes hate speech as follows: When people are devalued, attacked or when hatred or violence is called for against them, this is referred to as hate speech. Additionally, hate speech is described as a generic term for the phenomenon of hostility against specific groups of people or sedition on the internet and social media platforms.
A growing number of people are affected by hate speech, whether in the form of bullying at school or work, or through sexist, racist, trans- or homophobic insults online.