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Ingo, it's not that we've broken any US laws (we haven't) Google is an American corporation that's decided it isn't going to support sites featuring certain content. They've simply removed their sponsorship of IMCDB. What you really mean is American "values" (or sensibilities) not laws, pornography is by no means illegal there (except possibly in a few states, I'm not sure)
And why would that image be illegal in Germany? I can't see any swastikas.
Naah, I indeed mean "US-law" in the meaning of "regulation", and not as "values", as these are used here in the meaning of a rule/regulation/law: stopping the advertising because of the "inappropriate" (cleary: "illegal according US-laws" pics, which are visible here.
So this Google-behaviour against IMCDb ist cleary
a) a punishment
b) censorship (plus the unpleasant side effect of the followng self-cesonsoring
This self-censorsing was named in Germany in the Nazi-times, but also in the DDR "the scissors in the brain". Terryfying, how hastily specific IMCDb-member became active in helping for that
And yes, also in the USA it's meant as a law. Note, that the police-patrols at US-beaches in the summer are mainly made for these two items:
a) controlling, if there are topless girls
b) controlling, if anyone drinks alcohol in the public.
Unthinkable in Germany...