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In this section of my website I publish detailed writings on various topics at irregular intervals.

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Four more years of Grand Coalition

So now we have a government again

And everybody's like, "Yeaahh!"

After a long back and forth, the grand coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD has now managed to form a government again. Yesterday, the Chancellor and her cabinet were sworn in for the benefit of the German people, so help them God. It’s a shame to imagine the positive aspects of a minority government, in which every decision has to be fought for a majority. In which it is not possible to simply bypass the majority and a “Keep it up!” would not be doable. That would have been a democracy.

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GDPR

Privacy – the barriers for website operators are getting higher and higher

7 years ago

The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on May 25. While data protectionists can now celebrate themselves and think about what they can regulate even ~~worse~~tighter, we simple people who just want to have a website running now have to seriously consider whether it’s even worth it.

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