Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week after CompuServe blocked access to certain sexually explicit newsgroups, German authorities say that company officials decided on their own which newsgroups to ban. German prosecutors denied claims by CompuServe that the government told the firm which newsgroups to block and reiterated that they never explicitly threatened CompuServe with criminal charges if they did not comply. CompuServe last week had blocked access to some 200 newsgroups on Usenet, a portion of the Internet, touching off a storm of speculation that online services might be held accountable anywhere in the world where material available on the service is considered illegal...
...leading online service jumped into the middle of the debate over electronic free speech on Thursday by blocking subscriber access to a sexually explicit section of the Internet. The move by CompuServe Inc., prompted by threats from a German prosecutor probing child pornography, means that the company's four million subscribers will not be able to access some 200 different "newsgroups" on a portion of the Internet called Usenet. "This shows that if you pull the plug in one country, you pull the plug on all countries," says TIME's Philip Elmer DeWitt. "But anyone who wants to regulate...
TIME's Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Van Voorst reports that German officials notified CompuServe's local office of their pornography investigation last month. But because CompuServe was not able to block access to the Usenet group for just it's 220,000 German subscribers, the company instituted its system-wide blackout. "The Munich prosecutor's office confirmed to me that CompuServe had possibly violated Bavarian law by providing access to the material," says Van Voorst. "Bavarian police visited the CompuServe's German office in Unterhaching, a Munich suburb, looking for evidence. Right now you have a lot of German Internet...
Beleagured financial writers constantly struggle for interesting ways to say that prices rose, fell or went nowhere. But someone at Knight-Ridder really scraped bottom Wednesday reporting a slow day on the German stock market. The story, datelined Frankfurt, began: "Lethargic and stuck in a 3-point range, the DAX shares index was about as lively as Dean Martin before closing unchanged from Friday in its first floor session following the death Monday of the singer and Hollywood celebrity...
Confederate war memorials are, to me, reminiscent of German World War II memorials; that the cause was undoubtedly wrong does not mean that the young men who died at the front for what they believed was their patriotic duty were immoral or, for their part, doing "the Devil's work." They were doing what they thought was their duty, and they had the courage--as many of us do not--to fight...