Sold Off Public. Hamburg Sells Its Website to Springer -- and Gives Away an Opportunity to Develop New Possibilities for Digital Communities

Springer-Verlag becomes the majority owner of "hamburg.de", a website that until now was public domain. Hamburg gave away the opportunity for an ad-free site where opinions, information, protests, & activities were free flowing. Radio & television, free from economic interests, should provide all citizens with a "basic supply" of information, education, & entertainment. Hamburg's politicians do not understand the future strategic chances of sovereignty in the virtual space & they do not know anymore that there should be boundaries separating public from private. E. Sanchez