Do you know the reason for the success of McDonald’s restaurants worldwide? No, I am not talking the crappy food or low prices only, there is another important reason: They all look alike and have the same products. The key for success is: They all look more or less alike. Germany is now trying to attract tourists from China using the same method: They create an environment that makes them feel like home. Yesterday the German parliament introduced censorship of the internet. The first step to complete surveillance.

To just outline the situation for foreigners that are not familiar, I will outline the situation. Germany has introduced one regulation after another in the past years. Thanks to the kneefall towards the US, we now have RFID-passports that can easily be copied, even from a distance. Any phone line can today easily be monitored, all information can be easily accessed by the police and the secret service. So each time we make a little step from freedom to what they claim to be security.

Guess what happened when these laws passed gouvernment? Nothing. Little protest, only one smaller political party (we have five) actually protested. So people took it lying down.

This year we have claimed the next step: Yesterday the gouvernment passed a law against child pornography. In general, nothing anyone would disagree about. Good intention, but that method fails: Nothing is being done against the content on the internet, all they do is block the access to the websites. What is even worse: Nobody controls the secret service that takes care of the block lists. You just do not know what is blocked, and who decides what to block.

Although this time there was protest (especially by the German pirates party), the result was the same: Our parties in charge, the CDU/CSU and the SPD (now known on twitter as CSPDU), passed the law without serious contradiction. And this is, again, the first step towards the blocking of music websites or any content that seems unappropriate.

So what do we have now? We are living in a country that becomes more and more like China, thanks to the McDonald’s effect. So anyone from that little dictatorship peoples democracy will feel lust like home in the upcoming future. Welcome to Germany, there is 1,2 billion of you, and we desparately need foreign currency.