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This looks rather clueless, I think. As others have mentioned, the problem isn't so much in the interconnects, but more with the services being used. But there isn't going to come a new Facebook or Google out of Berlin - or anywhere else for that matter.

What would be helpful would be decentralized services that match the user experience of the existing ones. But that kind of innovation isn't what's going to be discussed here, I'm afraid. On the contrary, such eavesdropping-safe technology would be viewed very conspicuously by the non-tech savy politicians in Europe and other places.

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But there isn't going to come a new Facebook or Google out of Berlin

That is, in part, because the kinds of privacy invasion those two organisations routinely conduct would probably have been challenged earlier and more aggressively if they had been within European jurisdiction, and particularly within Germany.

This is a feature, not a bug.