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> there are billboards on the streets of German cities with "privacy campaigns" actively agitating against Facebook I don't recall ever seeing anything like th
by morsch 8y ago
> there are billboards on the streets of German cities with "privacy campaigns" actively agitating against Facebook
I don't recall ever seeing anything like that. So it's either very rare or limited to certain regions. I do recall seeing Facebook billboards which pick up some of the Anti-Facebook rhetoric, e.g. [1]. Those are paid for by Facebook.
> country-wide hysteria against social networks
According to Facebook itself, there are ~29 million daily users[2] in Germany (pop. 82 million).
[1] http://cdn4.spiegel.de/images/image-1065027-galleryV9-qxvz-1065027.jpg http://cdn4.spiegel.de/images/image-1065027-galleryV9-qxvz-1... ("I posted something I should not have shared/Delete it and it's gone")
[2] https://allfacebook.de/zahlen_fakten/offiziell-facebook-nutzerzahlen-deutschland https://allfacebook.de/zahlen_fakten/offiziell-facebook-nutz...