Journalism is treason in Germany

It's a sad tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_scandal

(Interestingly, the Spiegel carefully tries to not have an opinion on the current scandal and just quotes both sides.)

> Germany's plans to expand domestic Internet surveillance earlier this year.

Sorry if this smells slightly of Godwin's law, but if the internet had been available from when the Berlin Wall went up until it came down, the Stasi would not have bothered with neighbors being informants; they would have done exactly this.