Netzpolitik.org is arguably the most influential German blog in the realm of digital rights. It played a key role in marshalling protests against ACTA three years ago. You’d think the German government would be proud of it as an example of local digital innovation, but instead, it seems to regard it as some kind of traitor […]
What makes this kind of bullying doubly outrageous is that there is a rather bigger story regarding the press in Germany: the fact that both the NSA and CIA spied on the news magazine Der Spiegel. And yet rather than investigate that fact, or that other newspapers seem to have been victims too, the German government is more concerned about intimidating journalists that dare to report on its own plans to spy on millions of its citizens. […]
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150713/06544431624/germanys-leading-digital-rights-blog-netzpolitikorg-accused-treason-after-leaking-bulk-surveillance-plans.shtml