TheStandard.com: Germany Won't Block Access to Foreign Nazi Sites Country Watch: Germany7/25/2000; 7:55:41 AM 'Germany, which has some of the world's toughest laws banning race hate propaganda, has conceded defeat to the cross-border reach of the Internet and given up trying to bar access to foreign-based neo-Nazi sites.'Deputy Interior Minister Brigitte Zypries, the government's Internet security chief, said this week in an interview with Reuters that it was unrealistic to try to shield Germans from foreign Web sites, even though police do aim to stop homegrown Nazi and other offensive material, such as child pornography.'Also some other interesting statements...'Sensitivity about the past also means that Germany has a strong culture of personal privacy and so far the government has shied away from efforts being made in the United States and Britain to monitor certain e-mail for signs of illegal activity.'"Germany, because of its history with state restrictions, is especially careful and we are very sensitive about state intrusions into the private sphere," Zypries told Reuters.'"Anyway, the Americans are not further along in the fight against organized crime even though they have these rights."'An understanding that privacy and complete law enforcement powers may be a contradictions... not bad!'Discussing recent computer virus attacks, Zypries said business must play the lead role in protecting themselves.'"It is business which must develop over the Internet and it is these businesses that must create the security," she said.'"It is the same as a bank here in the city which must make themselves secure against a break in. We don't surround them with police either."'This is an even better policy, as it's easier to protect against a computer attack, in general.