this headline is misleading. The website was blocked in some schools due to an incompetent configuration of a filter software. The filter configuration has been changed.

This ought to be counter-productive, considering that most students either know or potentially know about the Pirate Party. All this does is making people who didn't care enough become interested. I think the Pirate Party will probably get more votes from this, as people like to feel they are sticking up to the man - voting on a censored and a non-non-sensical party seems like a good way of doing it, especially since their views are aligned with most students views.

This isn't censorship any more than blocking porn in high school libraries is considered censorship. This wasn't a move by rival political parties. The school in question used some third party web filter which flagged the pirate party's website as drug-related.

There is a possibility of censorship of the Dutch party since yesterday.

Dutch court bans Pirate Party links to The Pirate Bay http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18016819

What "list from IBM" would they be using? Can anyone confirm this categorization of the site as "illegal drugs"?

Edit: any chance this was done by someone in support of the pirate party?

Sounds like it was just censored in schools with a NetNanny type internet filter. What's the voting age in Germany again?

Where is the democracy ?