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Re:Germany’s Federal Network Agency wants to regulate XMPP c... by catdog on Sunday March 26, 2017 @09:30AM (#13960684)
> It belongs to the Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur (literally “federal ministry for transport and digital infrastructure” i.e. highways and data highways).

That's blatantly wrong. It's the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie). You even mentioned the Wikipedia article which states it right.

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Re:Germany’s Federal Network Agency wants to regulate XMPP c... by germanier on Sunday March 26, 2017 @09:35AM (#13960704)
The departments of the agency working on telecommunication law are exclusively supervised by the Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur. Only the other areas plus all administrative supervision is done by the Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie.

("Belongs to" is probably too strong either way. They are not part of a ministry.)

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Re:Germany’s Federal Network Agency wants to regulate XMPP c... by catdog on Sunday March 26, 2017 @09:40AM (#13960725)
Ah you are right they introduced that change late 2013.

//edit: But how it is stated in the parent post is still wrong ;)

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Re:Germany’s Federal Network Agency wants to regulate XMPP c... by erlehmann_ on Sunday March 26, 2017 @09:46AM (#13960753)
I edited my post to clarify that.
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Re:Germany’s Federal Network Agency wants to regulate XMPP c... by brudgers on Sunday March 26, 2017 @09:33AM (#13960699)
A good point, but could be made differently.
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