The LandesMedienanstalt North Rhine-Westphalia has imposed a network lock for the porn platform Xhamster. The reason for this is missing youth protection by the cypriotic operator of the portal. These have in the past, as well as the authorities in Cyprus, largely put dead, which is why the Landesmedienanstalt Nordrhein-Westphalia felt forced to a dramatic step. Because they now imposed a so-called DNS lock against the website xhamster.com.
- What does the lock for XHamster means?
- Telefónica and Vodafone want to be legally checked
- DNS locks – a meaningless means?
- DNS locks are nothing new
What does the lock for XHamster means?
In the course of the blocking, the LandesMedienanstalt North Rhine-Westphalia is approaching the five largest Internet service provider, short ISP, in Germany and have the domain lock. The implementation of the measure is largely done, which is why the website in Germany can not be easily accessed so easily.
Telefónica and Vodafone want to be legally checked
Not all ISPs take this intervention in the network neutrality just as if Tele Columbus, United Internet and Deutsche Telekom accept the verdict, want Telefónica and Vodafone the lock Legally check. The Telefónica is about general legal certainty. Vodafone, on the other hand, wants to clarify whether, as a provider, it must continue to be tensioned as middleman in front of the Cards of the State Mediaanstalt.
DNS locks – a meaningless means?
DNS locks can be dealt with by the user with ease , which is why it is questionable whether an improvement of the youth protection or complete blocking of the page for German users is actually achieved. Next to Xhamster, the largest German pornortal, the LandesMedienanstalt has already threatened other porn providers the same , they should not improve their youth protection.
In contrast to Xhamster, however, they have responded to the threatening debiles and were drawn in court. There they have already lost in the first instance before the administrative court Dusseldorf and have gone to the next instance, the decision of the Upper Administrative Court in the matter is still outstanding.
DNS locks are nothing new
Already in the past, it has always given such network locks, the Internet piracy has also been announced, which is why several streaming pages were blocked for movies and series by German ISPs. However, many of these pages just today exist, among other name.
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