Comments on: Germany Wants to Ban Austrian Online Game Shops

By: Ghostpirate

Ghostpirate — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:57:09 +0000

Unfortunately a lot of the people are either not willing to stand up for their rights or simply didn’t understand what is happening at the moment. People in our country are a bit lazy when it comes to protest against something, even if that restricts their civil rights simply because they think “We won’t be able to do anything against it” or are simply not willing to protest for a longer period of time. We could learn quite something from our french neighbours about that, I can tell you that. :(

On the other side, our goverment is not interested in the votes of young people (because older conservative voters are the majority in here and the amount of them keeps increasing). We even had a petition against the website cencorship – it reached way over 134.000 signatures and got in the Bundestag but had no effect after all. Our goverment simply keeps ignoring the young people and caters to the old ones who didn’t grew up with the internet and stick to newspapers and TV – therefor they don’t see our protest because most of it takes place online.

We have to take the protest to the streets, we have to be vocal and god damn loud in order to make our voices heard.

The only way to prevent this law, would be the Civil Council (Bundesrat) because it still has to give it’s ok in order to turn that bill into actual law.

By: n0brein

n0brein — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:52:30 +0000

@Joshingo: There is a nationwide demonstration tomorrow (all infos here ) I'll be at the one in berlin but I don't think it'll be too crowded since students are pretty busy striking and demonstrating against the new education plans...

By: erotic nerd

erotic nerd — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:41:19 +0000

Well we have a rather big movement against the whole bullshit the government is pulling at the moment. This WILL lead to a lot of protests and hopefully long overdue political change.

If you want to help, donate some money to the german pirate party.

By: Joshingo

Joshingo — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:45:35 +0000

Wow that is a really horrible situation. You guys should be out on the street protesting. Is there like a pro-gaming campaign in Germany I can donate money to? This is definitely a cause I can get behind.

By: ConanThe3rd

ConanThe3rd — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:30:31 +0000

It’ll all turn out ok, by the next election we (the UK) will be run by the BNP so every millitary resource will be used to ensure every other country doesn’t exist anymore.

By: n0brein

n0brein — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:16:21 +0000

We’re seriously fucked over here. I fear that the blockade will be expanded before the elections, after all child porn and violent videogames are really great election campaign topics…