BERLIN, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A left-wing German politician has dropped charges against the online encyclopedia Wikipedia for featuring banned Nazi symbols.
"My complaints relate to content on Wikipedia such as an article about the Hitler Youth movement," said Left Party deputy chairwoman Katina Schubert.
Schubert said the article features Nazi symbols, which can only be used in Germany for educational and artistic purposes, Deutsche Welle reported Friday.
"I hope to encourage the operators to maintain their open structure but to introduce political and ethical standards that make it impossible for Nazis to promote their fascist nonsense as valuable knowledge on the (Internet)," Schubert wrote in a statement.
Arne Klempert, spokesman for Wikimedia Deutschland, said he resented the fact Schubert filed the charge without talking to Wikimedia first, Deutsche Welle reported.
"We don't really know what Ms. Schubert's problem is," he said. "The symbols are posted for the purposes of information.
