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by mschuster91 772 days ago
> From my understanding they're doing so because the content is paid for by public money, and YouTube is a foreign for-profit company. So they were essentially spending the citizens money to provide content to a private entity that's headquartered abroad

That's one thing, but IIRC the larger part was that the private broadcasters whined as they always do.
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Ringz 772 days ago
Just like they whined about one of the best public funded and free weather apps out there and sued them: DWD

https://www.dwd.de/DE/presse/pressemitteilungen/DE/2020/2020...

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shmeeed 771 days ago
The day of that news was the day I uninstalled all private weather apps I had been using and bought DWD. I figured if they want to play that game, they gotta live with the consequences.

I've since been encouraging everyone I know to do the same, and I never forget to tell this backstory.

Besides, DWD is hands down the single best weather app in the DACH region anyway.

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