BMEzine
Censorship
Censorship
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The BME site is blocked by many Internet filtering services intended to protect children (and workplaces), for reasons such as [nudity](/wiki/Nudity "Nudity"), [torture](/wiki/Torture "Torture"), and other adult content. It was banned by Germany's [Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien](/wiki/Bundespr%C3%BCfstelle_f%C3%BCr_jugendgef%C3%A4hrdende_Medien "Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien") in 1999 as a "danger to the youth" because BME did not include age verification or an entrance page warning users of potential adult content. In December 2005, the German agency forced [Google](/wiki/Google "Google") to remove the site from search results returned by www.google.de.[Zentastic.com](http://www.zentastic.com/entries/200512181123.html) 

Shannon Larratt writes in Zentastic.com:
 When Germany came after BME for "endangering the youth" and demanded that I make changes to the site to comply with German law, my response was to simply not visit Germany again (and I'm a German citizen). When the US started to pressure us, we moved all of our servers and presence out of the country and backed off on plans to live in the US. No changes were ever made to the site, and no images were ever removed — if anything, the pressure made me push those areas even more.


What steps did the author take in response to pressure from the US?