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Re:Germany to make it a crime to run a Tor node or website by kpcyrd on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:21PM (#19402625)
Not a lawyer, but this reads like an intent-based law, which aren't too uncommon in Europe. There are some other laws that are phrased in a similar way, like the so called "hacker paragraph".

To stick to your analogy, unless you market your knives as "murder knives" you are good.

I'm writing this as a German developer who's involved with the cjdns project, which matches "accessibility is restricted due to specific, technical precautionary measures" but obviously not "purpose is to allow or encourage specific illegal actions".

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Re:Germany to make it a crime to run a Tor node or website by unethical_ban on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:29PM (#19402711)
That puts a lot of faith in government not to abuse their right to change opinion. It's trying to make "common sense" law, and I'm not sure I'm comfortable with current "common sense" regulating the Internet.

On the flipside, common sense would state that maybe 8chan shouldn't exist.

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