Report from Germany on "backdoor" net-censorship

[Martin Minow]

>>Criteria for the ICTF's proceed will be developed, evaluated and
>>continuously updated by the Internet Medienrat. As an independant
>>gremium, the Internet Medienrat tries to achieve a social consensus
>>in the use of online media without government [sic! um] censorship.
>
>Is that any relation to the Judenrat that ran the inside of the Ghettos and
>Concentrated Camps during the late unpleasantness in Deutschland?
>
>DCF

Linguistically or politically?

If my (almost totally forgotten) German is correct, the suffix -rat
means "council" or "ministry" or, rather more generally, "governing
body."

But, you probably knew that already.

Cheers

Martin.