The central problem is that Germany has much more stringent age verification laws than its neighboring countries and specifies much harsher penalties, including jail time, for those with direct responsibility (in our case, it would be our colleagues in the German offices and we're not willing to make a call that has that kind of consequence for them).
I think I read somewhere that a while back Yahoo got into lots of trouble over auction sites selling Nazi memorabilia.
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So that might have a bearing on things. Hiving off Germany Flickr to Yahoo.de looks to have serious -albeit stupid consequences. I knew Yahoo buying Flickr would be trouble.
I wouldn't have predicted this though. I'd feel sorry for the flickr staff if they hadn't brought it upon themselves - they should have stayed in Canada where they were safe.
Anyway it's entertaining seeing people's inventiveness in response to this in the last 7 days explore interestingness page.
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