Pornography banned on net

BONN - Germany yesterday became the first country to outlaw pornography, violence and neo Nazi propaganda on the Internet and…

BONN - Germany yesterday became the first country to outlaw pornography, violence and neo Nazi propaganda on the Internet and its websites, the Justice Minister, Mr Edzard Schmidt Jortzig, said.

Under a new media law the existing criminal law and legislation protecting copyrights will be extended to the net.

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