News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Data-Free Disney. Parent comment

Re:Data-Free Disney by kleiba on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @03:34PM (#34795543)
You've got to understand that you kids have been raised in different times.

In the 1980's, the German state tried twice to do a census of the population. Twice the protests by the people were so vivid, that they failed to do them. In 1983, the highest German court declared the planned census unconstitutional and in 1987, protests on May 1st turned into violence over this issue.

In 2022, Germany did a census again. There was basically no public objection.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Data-Free Disney by NovaDudely on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @03:49PM (#34795741)
Another data point, here in Australia we do a census every 5 years. Never really heard any objection other than it is annoying.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Data-Free Disney by snapcaster on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @04:02PM (#34795949)
Germany has a very unique history when it comes to how records of their population were used...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Data-Free Disney by chaostheory on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @06:23PM (#34797700)
Not totally unique. The US used their census for Japanese internment camps.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Data-Free Disney by FroshKiller on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @06:52AM (#34802609)
And it was American innovation that made the use of that census data possible for both countries thanks to Herman Hollerith's punch cards & tabulators and Thomas Watson's greed leading IBM to furnish the Nazis with that technology.
[ Parent | on HN ]