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Re:Germany’s Federal Network Agency wants to regulate XMPP c... by userbinator on Sunday March 26, 2017 @10:36AM (#13960980)
The federal network agency claims that XMPP clients have to be registered according to a German law that says that one has to be registered with (but does not need permission from) the agency if providing public communication services commercially.

It's a rather slippery slope from XMPP towards software which uses any of the other networking protocols, even TCP/IP and Ethernet, since they could all be considered telecommunications.

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Re:Germany’s Federal Network Agency wants to regulate XMPP c... by tgragnato on Sunday March 26, 2017 @03:16PM (#13962547)
Germany has always been a very procedure-oriented country. This instills a "conscientious thoroughness" in their psyche. Which mostly pays off (for them).

There are options :

- they got this wrong because they don't understand how the net works

- they effectively want to control the communication by setting rules and discouraging decentralisation [https://www.rt.com/news/373706-russia-influence-europe-germa...]

- ???

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