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Comment by hobofan | Hacker News Reader

Mods: This is an article about a proposed law, so "will" isn't really an accurate reflection (yet, or hopefully at all) and the title should be changed.

My proposal: "New German law would force ISPs to redirect traffic to intelligence services for trojan install" (if that is not to long).

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There are a couple problems: one is that proposed bills rarely go anywhere, so it's generally best to wait for a state change [1]. Edit: I think we can override this issue, given that surveillance laws are of particular interest to HN and the comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23783164.

The other is that HN is an English-language site. We have deep respect for the German language, but articles on HN need to be in English [2]. I've changed it to https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/new-german-law-wo... for now. If there's a better link, we can change it again.

(Submitted URL was https://netzpolitik.org/2020/staatstrojaner-provider-sollen-...)

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Yes, you are right, but the current title is just 2 chars under the limit and I couldn't think of a shorter one. Sorry for the somewhat misleading "will".

My somewhat lame excuse: The law will most probably pass, current govt is a coalition of the two largest parties with overwhelming majority and absolutely no clue about anything digital.

Edit: would "shall" work instead of "will"?

What about "may"?

"German proposal would"

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