http://netzpolitik.org/2009/the-dawning-of-internet-censorship-in-germany/

I strongly suspect it’s political posturing by people who want to appear “tough on crime” without simply raising taxes to hire more police.

Germany has ‘a thing’ with violence.
We’re told to avoid bullies at school, we’re punished heavily for any form of violence. We discourage it in movies and games and we have in the past indexed games.

Now, everyone crying foul, may I say the words: Jackson, Timberlake, Super Bowl.
The FCC has since then hunted down anything that shows nudity or any form of sexuality. I am still not convinced that I find keeping violence in check worse then crying out ‘Shame!’ when someone shows a curve.

Iconic :I wonder if Hitler played violent video games.

Well we know he wanted to be in the Darkfall beta

But Europe has always been far more controlling of people’s freedoms than we in the US have been. They dont’ have the tradition of their countries very founding on the idea of liberty, so they just don’t have those ideas deeply ingrained. I’m sure there are many reasons. But in the end, Germany, France, Italy, et.al. are always going to be some of the worst of the “free” West that will regulate and control their own people “for their own good”. This is nothing new, and truthfully it’s nothing to scoff at or ridicule. It’s a symptom of a horrible disease of do-gooders wanting to run other people’s lives, and it goes far beyond games.