German Regulator Who Shut Down xHamster Describes Own Mission as ‘Kafkaesque’

Tobias Schmid, the obscure local bureaucrat who spearheads Germany’s War on Porn and recently led a successful movement to force ISPs to ban xHamster in the country, gave an exclusive interview last week where he expanded on his notions about online porn, admitted he has “no clear answer” on how to make age verification truly effective and acknowledged his anti-porn crusade is “a bit Kafkaesque.”