Dark web crackdown: Germans want to criminalize anyone providing a platform

guest · Mar 15, 2019

Dark web crackdown: Germans want to criminalize anyone providing a platform
Germany's states have decided the country needs a new law to criminalize dark-web platform operators
March 15, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/dark-...t-to-criminalize-anyone-providing-a-platform/

Germany's states have voted to introduce federal legislation that would criminalize the act of providing technical infrastructure for so-called dark-web marketplaces where illegal activities take place.

It is of course already against the law to sell drugs or offer hitman services over such sites, which operate away from the open internet.
However, the states believe more should be done to crack down on those who provide the technical infrastructure for such marketplaces.

There would be jail terms of up to three years in cases of platform where drugs, explosives and child sexual-abuse material are traded.
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Nonetheless, some fear the proposal is still too expansive.
Criminal lawyer David Schietinger told Der Spiegel that the language "would severely limit civil liberties" as it "could be used to severely restrict or ban the dark web".
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reasonablePrivacy · Mar 20, 2019

Problem with this is that people providing platform must surveil their customers to check whether they use platform to serve legal or illegal content, services.

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