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Re:Germany to make it a crime to run a Tor node or website by maze-le on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:38AM (#19400077)
Thats just the point, these services are already outlawed. There are numerous laws that regulate the sale of drugs, weapons etc., which makes these onion-services already illegal. The wording of this proposal is made deliberately weak so that even Exit nodes will be covered, if it gets through the Bundestag.

Alas a small word on the legislative procedure. This is "only" a draft of a proposal of the Bundesrat (what in most states is called the Senate). The 'Bundesrat' has no legislative authority, so in essence this is a paper that 'calls the Bundestag (House of representatives)' to initiate a legislative procedure -- on itself it is pretty meaningless but has the chance to become a problem.

Re:Germany to make it a crime to run a Tor node or website by eleitl on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:18PM (#19401867)
> he law is drafted to close a loophole where you can open a black market site

The chance is pretty good, given their recent track record.