A complaint was filed by a lawyer in Bavaria against three Facebook Germany GmbH managers. Though Facebook's European headquarters is in Ireland, the lawyer argues that without the advertising revenue that Facebook Germany GmbH generates, the website would not be able to fully operate in Germany. "Facebook Germany GmbH therefore promotes the dissemination of inflammatory, criminal content through actions in Germany that start in the German business headquarters in Hamburg," the complaint states. The Read more [...]

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At some point, Georg Grabner had had enough. A man in his mid-50s, he works as district administrator in Upper Bavaria, close to the border with Austria. In theory, it's a nice job. Towns in the area are called "Prien," "Traunstein" or "Bergen"; the Chiemsee, Bavaria's largest lake, is just around the corner, and cows gaze with a panoramic view of the surrounding Alps in the background. Everything changed when border controls were introduced in mid-September. Freilassing, the first town on German Read more [...]