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Fun fact: Because of this phrase (In German „Datenautobahn“) the German digital ministry is docked to the ministry of transport…

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This makes sense. Cloud computing should be part of the Meteorology department!

The Department of Agriculture would beg to differ - clearly the oversight of server farms should be their responsibility.

Unless the servers are doing machine learning, in which case that falls under the Department of Education.

Are these servers communicating internationally? The department of foreign affairs would like to have a word.

Department of Labor might have had something to say about crypto mining.

How about OSHA? Mines fall under our purview.

Shouldn't it be linked to the agricultural department because of the phrase "Neuland"?

I recently learned that one of the major competition regulators in Germany is called the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur or BNetzA), which oversees electricity, gas, telecommunications, post, and railway markets.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Network_Agency>

Given my own relatively recent realisation that virtually all industrial monopolies can be considered (sometimes with some mental gymnastics) as networks, this is an interesting bit of confirmation.

That's amazing, I don't even care if its true.

Check it out: https://www.bmvi.de/EN/Home/home.html

"Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport"

It got its current name 2013. It was a merger 1998 of "Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building" and the one responsible for transport. The urban development department was responsible for internet infrastructure not the transport one.

Shouldn't it be the ministry for infrastructure?

Doesn't confirm the "Because of this phrase" part of the claim.

Reminiscent of how New York transferred responsibility for the state canal system to the electric power authority because of NYSDOT mismanagement.

In Texas the railroad commission is super powerful and responsible for oil and gas leases.

But it can only manage policies for Layer 4 and above, right? :)

Heavy "citation needed" here.

OMG this is... quite the misunderstanding -_-'

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