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Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

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Re: Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

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Post by Paradigma11 »

u8080 wrote: post #131
Paradigma11 wrote: post #129

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The destruction of Northstream 2 had no effect at all on the energy supply to Germany. The remaining capacity to Russia was never used over 50%, if that. Considering Russia intentionally drove up prices in the months leading up to the invasion and even rented storage capacity to keep it empty to better blackmail, there never was a sane argument for keeping the gas imports from Russia going.

Limiting supply is limiting bargaining power, you will always end up with better deal even having worse alternative option. As a buyer you want as much supply as possible.

You also want suppliers that are also motivated by financial self interest. Otherwise you end at:

“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” ― Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Re: Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

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Post by greenavocado »

jijijijij wrote: post #170
snowpid wrote: post #155

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Im really happy for Poland for its growing economy. (though it has the same challenges as Germany roughly speaking) But You can't just deny the political problems. Propably some Americans do it - to cope with Trump who is worser than any PiS president. Poland has the EU as democratic layer but US with Trump doesnt have it.

Yeah, I am rooting for Poland, but it's simply not a shining example of democratic integrity. > Poland has the EU as democratic layer but US with Trump doesnt have it. I mean, let's see. The US thought checks and balances would hold, but they didn't, and the EU didn't prevent Hungary and Poland to slip into authoritarian dynamics to begin with. It's not exactly the legal body drawing the latter two back to change, bu…

Of what use is democratic integrity if the body politic is disintegrating in most so-called democracies?

Re: Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

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Post by Markomancer »

CrimsonRain wrote: post #162
Markomancer wrote: post #160

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Fully in favour of this and we are making efforts to publish as much of our data publicly as we can. We have set up an open data portal for this purpose. My country differs from Germany in that our Freedom of Information laws are much broader and allow anyone to request virtually any record held by a public organisation, with the grounds for refusal being narrower. For example, generic day to day email exchanges betw…

Requests from outside of eu, the requester should pay the full cost of compilation and then some. Why not make those emails public to begin with? There's no need to compile/publish if all data is public to begin with.

Unfortunately, not all data held by an organisation is generated and held in a publishable format.

The data in this example is created incidentally within email chains as part of a broader process.

It's really not cost effective to publish real-time data that's been requested by these firms.

So in principle, I agree that where there is substantial data held that the public are interested in, it should be published. However, it's not feasible or cost effective to publish all data or records held by a public organisation.

Re: Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

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Post by snowpid »

jijijijij wrote: post #165
snowpid wrote: post #156

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Sorry this is more an effect of your social media consumption . I don't deny the problem the country is facing but your doom is multiplied by social media. Touch some grass, maybe pay for traditional media and you get a view of the trade offs the government is facing. It doesnt mean you have to agree with the choice but you know... " Industry and trade associations aren't happy either, which raises the question who a…

Buddy, I am just on HN and FetLife. Maybe get rid of your own delusions before judging strangers on their imagined social media bias. > Most AfD members share your sentiment. Maybe you should qquestion this feeling. I heard they also drink water. Lot's to think about.

How do you know about German news if you don't read in social media? Maybe judge your media consumption. Your thinking is very emotional and very close to Afd members.

Some kinky members are lost anyway politically.

Re: Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

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Post by jijijijij »

greenavocado wrote: post #172
jijijijij wrote: post #170

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Yeah, I am rooting for Poland, but it's simply not a shining example of democratic integrity. > Poland has the EU as democratic layer but US with Trump doesnt have it. I mean, let's see. The US thought checks and balances would hold, but they didn't, and the EU didn't prevent Hungary and Poland to slip into authoritarian dynamics to begin with. It's not exactly the legal body drawing the latter two back to change, bu…

Of what use is democratic integrity if the body politic is disintegrating in most so-called democracies?

Plenty and mo. Who are we, if not Partanguagoos?

Re: Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

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Post by woodpanel »

flossly wrote: post #32
greenavocado wrote: post #17

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Poland, but its on borrowed time due to the extreme fertility crisis.

Is fertility so important? Maybe the other western countries are equally infertile, but just allowed many immigrants in (which counts are population expansion) that also have more children on average. How are Japan and Korea holing out? They are further down the infertility down-spiral.

Most popular boys name, per place:

- Warsaw: Nikodem

- Oslo: Mohammad

- Berlin and Brandenburg: Mohammed

- England as a whole: Muhammad

Mind you that the names top these lists in spite of usually being present in there in multiple spelling versions. E.g. if all different spelling versions of Muhammad were combined it would top the Dutch statistics as well.

Re: Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

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Post by CrimsonRain »

gib444 wrote: post #164
CrimsonRain wrote: post #147

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How about keeping the information public from start so a request is not even needed?

What service should be cut or tax increased in order to pay for it?

Data is there. Bundle it up in torrent and let community handle it. Cheaper than current system.

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Post by Timon3 »

sajithdilshan wrote: post #166
tancop wrote: post #134

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theres a world of difference between a left party, even radical left like die linke, and ddr style communist dictatorship. and i dont like the greens views on nuclear power but they might be the only one who can save germany from afd fascism and cdu family-values flavored petty authoritarianism. if your definition of center right is fdp then get ready for even more corruption and corporate capture of everything that…

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I live in Germany, and you are completely wrong, friend. The Greens sure as hell didn't start deindustrializing anyone, and the idea that after almost 20 years of centrist governments, the thing that would save us would be the next centrist government is ludicrous.
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