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The formal proclamation of the Basic Law on May 23 , 1949 marked the beginning of a new era in german history. Following the elections to the first Bundestag on August 14, 1949 parliamentary life rounded out the constitution.

We'd celebrated it's 60th Anniversary in 2009.

The same year, german federal government announced the necessity of filtering the internet to fight child abuse. Beforehand telecommunication control/monitoring was established to fight international terrorism.

Nowadays something like 'degenerated internet' is coming up in public discussions from our politicians.
If you have a look on wikipedia describing degenerate art from german's past you will find several similarities in how terms are used.

Strange thing that police officer associations declare their 'inability' to fight cybercrime and stop abusive content hosted in their country due to knowledge, manpower or for whatever reasons.
Anti-child abuse associations stated, that they had no problem to get most of such content removed contacting the providers.

Now, the filtering and control mechanisms are established, lobbies and politicians request additional filters on different aims.

You'll find statements like the one from Ursula von der Leyen '... We will continue discussions on howto preserve freedom of speech, democracy and human dignity on the right level. ...abendblatt online'.

Not the abusive content is taken from the web - they touch the citizens and not the content-servers.
You have to know, that federal offices, public institutions like schools, youth centers etc. are mostly not affected by the filtering laws.

In the republic of Weimar they first started burning books ...

I'm getting afraid.