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Internet-Law
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Internet-Law is a personal blog at internet-law.de about politics. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-14, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link this German-language blog by a lawyer as background on internet law, including state secrets, surveillance treaties, platform liability for user comments and Facebook's removal of illegal posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
There's a big debate whether those secret treaties exist and if they do, whether they say what Foschepoth says they do - i.e. if they allow spying on all german citizens by allies secret services - and if they allow it, whether the german government can sign (secret) treaties that violate principles of the german Grundgesetz (constitution). See for example this blog post http://www.internet-law.de/2013/10/darf-die-n…
Comment linking /2013/10/darf-die-nsa-in-deutschland-die-telekommunikation-ueberwachen.html
on “Chaos Computer Club files criminal complaint against the German Government”Relevant legal analysis (in German, by a lawyer): http://www.internet-law.de/2015/07/ist-das-landesverrat.html The key point is that state secrets can only be those pieces of information that must be kept secret in order to prevent a grave danger to the external security of the Federal Republic of Germany. Netzpolitik.org published information about the internal structure and plans of Germany's domestic intelligence…
Comment linking /2015/07/ist-das-landesverrat.html
on “Chaos Computer Club congratulates Netzpolitik.org”AFAIK there has been no "redefinition of hate speech" throughout the EU. It's just that in Germany, Facebook started removing posts that are illegal under German law (libel, incitement of violence...) after they were reminded that they were legally required to do so. German blog post about it: http://www.internet-law.de/2015/09/muss-facebook-staerker-ge...
Comment linking /2015/09/muss-facebook-staerker-gegen-rassistische-postings-vorgehen.html
on “I worked on Facebook's Trending team”The headline is pretty misleading. The ECHR decided that it's not a breach of european rights if a member countries law stipulates a liability for a commercial provider. For example german law still requires that the provider is notified before any liability takes effect. So the provider is liable to remove offending content in a reasonable time after being notified, and this decision doesn't change anything. For ge…
Comment linking /2015/06/forenbetreiber-haftet-fuer-beleidigungen-der-nutzer-oder-doch-nicht.html
on “European court decision: Websites are liable for users’ comments”While you're right that the youtube issue is more complicated than "google good gema bad" it's an interesting assessment that the GEMA is trying to collect a "fair" fee for the artist. The GEMA is in dire need of reform on the fair front and on a couple of other issues as well. For example, only the upper 5% of the members get to vote on the distribution of funds, classical music gets ranked higher etc. The goal of…
Comment linking /2012/05/ist-das-system-gema-unfair.html
on “Germany's Wi-Fi Shortage Set to Ease as Merkel Backs New Bill”You are right, it is nonsensical. RetroShare has no exit-nodes. The whole story doesn't fit together. On friend-2-friend-networks, only your friends see you. You have to actively add an user and their "public" key to exchange data with them, also if you only act as a relay-node. What has to have happened here is that either the pc was unlawfully hacked, or the user in question added a key from one of the public exch…
Comment linking /2012/11/lg-hamburg-erlasst-einstweilige-verfugung-wegen-filesharings-mit-retroshare.html
on ““Anonymous” File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal”
