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Clarification: Merkel said "Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland", not “the Internet is new to all of us.”. Now Neuland does not just mean "new", but "new lan
by kephra 13y ago
Clarification: Merkel said "Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland", not “the Internet is new to all of us.”.
Now Neuland does not just mean "new", but "new land". Similar as America or Africa was new land after 1500. So it means, the internet is ripe to conquer it.
Merkel herself was a former Stasi member, known as IM-Erika (Informal Member Erika). Germany is currently tapping more phones, then DDR ever had. We do not have a PRISM scandal, but a law called Vorratsdatenspeicherung.
- lispm 13y agoWhat you write is misleading. Merkel was not a Stasi member and she was not known as 'IM Erika'. There are some rumors, but that's it mostly. The law 'Vorratsdatenspeicherung' is ruled unconstitutional by the 'Verfassungsgericht'. That the Internet is 'Neuland' is trivially true. I have been using the Internet since the mid 80s. But what we currently have is completely different, of a different quality and unprecedented.
- ytodo 13y agohttp://www.imagebanana.com/view/r8cwnbcl/satire_01_april_2012_mail3.jpg http://www.imagebanana.com/view/r8cwnbcl/satire_01_april_201... plz call it conspiracy, but mr.gauck was the one holding his thunbs on their secret files,...