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Re:Chaos Computer Club congratulates Netzpolitik.org by endymi0n on Friday July 31, 2015 @09:28AM (#9981584)
Context for non-Germans: The small political blog netzpolitik.org is currently being sued for national treason (for releasing some inside insights on the Internal handling of the NSA whistleblowing scandal), something unseen in Germany since the 80s. In contrast, all accusations on treason for the unconstitutional passing of information to the NSA have been dropped so far for "lack of evidence".

The CCC is sarcastically congratulating them for receiving this "award" now as a badge of honor.

On an unrelated funny sidenote, netzpolitik.org has received the (real) national award "Land of Ideas" the same day they received their formal note of opening investigations.

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Re:Chaos Computer Club congratulates Netzpolitik.org by ralfruns on Friday July 31, 2015 @09:44AM (#9981689)
They are not being sued. They are listed as suspects, and the DA is determining if there is a case or not.
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Re:Chaos Computer Club congratulates Netzpolitik.org by kpcyrd on Friday July 31, 2015 @11:07AM (#9982211)
For updates: http://istdasverfahrengegennetzpolitikschoneingestel.lt/ (is the case against netzpolitik already dropped)

    Nein -> No
    Ja -> Yes
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