Germany Reject Guilt Upon Accusation Laws: ‘Unfit for Germany, Unfit For Europe’
(crossposted from CreativeFreedom.org.nz)
After the EU rejected Guilt Upon Accusation laws saying that they were against “a fair balance between various fundamental rights” and the UK rejected them due to “impracticalities and complexities” it’s now Germany standing up for fundamental rights that National’s Steven Joyce and Chris Finlayson refuse to recognise. Germany’s Secretary of Justice said “I don’t think that [Guilt Upon Accusation] is a fitting model for Germany or even Europe. Preventing someone from accessing the Internet seems like a completely unreasonable punishment to me. It would be highly problematic due to both constitutional and political aspects.”. If you haven’t already please contact National’s Steven Joyce and Chris Finlayson about this law that they are allowing into New Zealand.


February 5th, 2009 at 12:46 am
I agree — even if guilty, disconnection from the internet is a completely inappropiate punishment for the act of downloading an mp3.