Germany Says You Can't Sell Adult Ebooks Until After 10 PM
Found on Techdirt on Monday, 22 June 2015
The law behind this baffling proclamation states it is intended to protect children from coming to harm via "advertising or teleshopping." It was written in 2002, and was no less stupid in its belief that it could somehow force online retailers to take certain items off the "shelves" for two-thirds of the day. It's only receiving attention now because the Youth Protection Authority trying to hammer it into place over bits of the internet.
And no one will be saved, Youth Protection Authority or no. But the YPA gets to say it tried, and I guess that's all that matters. It will just have to live with the mocking laughter.
If someone tells you a story like this, the natural reaction is to reply "They cannot be that stupid". They are though.