just want to point out you started at this headline is misleading and meandered to agreeing with this being a law now and it was made for a reason and it will be enforced sooner or later. and that's effectively the headline + you think it's a good thing.

Thank you, I suspect the _de in your username means you are German or German-speaking?

A friend from the US sent the link to this thread to me, asking about it.

The source website has no ability to be switched to English language, so all information my friend got was from the headline, which without context was misleading for him. If it was clear people wouldn’t ask German-speaking friends to explain this to them, don’t you think?

And if we are really precise, right now German men don’t need to request permission, because there is neither a process nor any paperwork in place to request permission.

Without being able to see and understand the context, the headline on its own is misleading in my opinion.

Just do an experiment for yourself.

Take the original transcript from any trump speech during the Iran war and put it in a German translator. You will understand it’s about the Iran war but you will be surprised how insane those speeches sound if you are not able to understand English and rely on Google Translate to understand the context.