ID requirement to halt freedom of information in Germany
doener
32 points
3 comments
July 25, 2026
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Cider9986
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xg15
> The Interior Ministry justifies the initiative with hybrid threat scenarios and relieving the administration. One of the "benefits" of wartime is that it becomes publicly acceptable for a government to paint its own citizens as a threat.
mdp2021
The title is very misleading: it is about, apparently (the article could be much clearer), a mandate to identify oneself when «request[ing] official information from federal authorities».