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Techdirt reports that the German government, armed with a law that has its origin in more captive content (movies -- the kind shown in theatres) and attempting to apply it to the internet (ebook sales).
Heise.de (German) and Boersenblatt (German) reported on Friday and Thursday that the Jugendschutzbehörde (Youth Protection Authority) has handed down a new ruling which extended Germany's Youth Media Protection Law to include ebooks.
As a result of a lawsuit (legal complaint?) over the German erotica ebook Schlauchgelüste (Pantyhose Cravings), the regulators have decided that ebook retailers in Germany can now only sell adult ebooks between 10 pm and 6 am local time (4 pm and midnight, eastern US).
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Germany Says You Can't Sell Adult Ebooks Until After 10 PM
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday June 24 2015, @03:33PM
I wonder about the age distribution. In the USA TV skews extremely old. Average fox news viewer is like 70. If some 80 year old dude still needs condom ads then he's doing REALLY well. I have noticed older people tend to tolerate violence pretty well, I mean they grew up in era of corporal punishment and nuns beating schoolchildren and the holocaust and all that, so "Fight Club" isn't really going to be a big deal. Aside from agitprop the "normal" TV viewer of boring prime time stuff is assumed to be at least a baby boomer aka basically retirement age. Its possible that in Germany non-blue-hairs watch TV and in that case non-blue hair commercials make sense.
I'm just trying to envision one of those stereotypical agitprop channels where the viewers are all retired senior citizens shouting at their TV about liberals and the ads are all for old people pills, suddenly having a condom ad just to get them all wound up and generate PR via the controversy itself ("Why the nerve, my johnson hasn't had action since the Johnson administration and those darn liberuls put this condom ad on my TV!")
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @05:35PM
Why would they need a condom? They'd just have their property get tubal ligation if it was still in child-bearing age.