Why Quit Facebook–Interview with Berliner Gazette (in German)

By Geert Lovink, August 16, 2010 at 9:55 am.

Berliner Gazette published an interview with me, conducted via email by Chris Piallat, in German. Here it is. The title is Telecommunism is Possible and deals with the Quit Facebook day on May 30 2o10 and why it is not the task of the German police and its boss to define Germany’s Internet policy.

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