back to article Bundestag won't reveal web block list on 'national security' grounds

Official sources in Berlin are refusing to publish details of the 100,000 websites blocked in the Bundestag, because revealing them would “endanger national security”. The block is primarily meant for the executive branch of the institution, but in practice affects all lawmakers working in the Bundestag. Following a serious …

  1. x 7

    but....but how are they supposed to be able to legislate against porn if they can't view it? You need to be able to see and experience it to be able to recognise it

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      "experience it" you mean like Lord Sewell?

      1. x 7

        Sewell wasn't getting much experience at the rates he was paying. £200/night per girl? No chance, prices start around £1200/night and go up from there depending on age, nationality, prettiness, use of condoms/ size of fit/ whether she washes.

        Only girls who might go for £200 would be STD-ridden Hungarian gypsies, who seem to go for the bottom end of the market - with the risk that entails. For £200/girl he's putting his life in danger.

        PS - I'm not having a go at Hungarians here - simply stating a fact that in the current UK market Hungarian gypsy girls are advertised online at the budget end of the prostitution racket. Presumably their pimps force them into a high turnover / low margin economy. And they're nearly all drugged up

    2. msknight

      I believe that an exhibition on extreme pornography was set up for the not-so right honourable personages in 2008 when they were debating said backward legislation, propped up by a weak and pathetic rapid evaluation assessment (that took 3 years and complained, in its own pages, that it didn't have enough time to do the job properly) ... and only one MP took advantage of it. Perhaps this explains why the rest of them didn't need to leave their desks before voting on the CJ&I bill.

      Sorry. Do I sound cynical and bitter?

  2. TimR

    How many of these were due to unwelcome pop-ups is not known

    Is that an age related thing?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: How many of these were due to unwelcome pop-ups is not known @TimR

      It CAN be age related. If you are too old, or take certain medications; not many things pop up anymore!

      Kind of makes porn superfluous.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I beg to differ

    Speaking from a slightly older viewpoint, even if it still makes me pop up, I always try to block the popups.

  4. earl grey
    Paris Hilton

    unwelcome pop-ups

    indeed.

  5. frank ly

    And another one

    "However, sources in the Bundestag told El Reg ..."

    That's El Reg on the list, as a threat to national security.

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