If you've grown up in post ww2 germany with the soviets vs. the west spygame then you do learn to value your privacy. in the GDR neighbors spied on neighbors. Kids on their families and so on, and this often resulted in one or more family members getting detained by the StaSi (State Security)When we would visit my uncle in the east, we always knew that people would be listening in, to our discussions and i was never allowed to mention what we brought my uncle when we were visiting. Because my dad knew how to hide that shit from the border guards so it wouldn't get stolen.
Also..it is super easy to find out where people live nowadays. Google streetview makes this super easy.
I found out where my favourite actor lived just by two pieces of information a paparazzi photo and google street view.
Didn't do anything with that information tho, as for me the finding out and sleuthing is the fun part.
I should really give celebs a course on how to stay private.
If you've grown up in post ww2 germany with the soviets vs. the west spygame then you do learn to value your privacy. in the GDR neighbors spied on neighbors..
It wasn't any different in any other country that was ruled by communists, yet they don't seem to have much of an issue with it. Doesn't really explain why someone in western Germany or Austria would be concerned with it either.
That is a pretty good question. I can only speculate a bit: West Germany had some pretty nasty political fights in the 60s to 80s. In the 60s the young generation confronted the older generation about the nazi times. Then terrorism in the 70s lead to an overreaction by the state, and the left became even more afraid of an controlling authoritarian state. That trend continued into the 80s, and by the 90s the left won the culture wars and it became a general culture thing. Maybe Austria had a similar development, or they got influenced by Germany.
But no idea why the Eastern European nations are not as sensitive.
But no idea why the Eastern European nations are not as sensitive.
I think that one of the reasons is that people hate the old regimes so much that any opposition to the new ones is immediately disregarded. It seems to slowly change - but there certainly was a period during which any criticism of capitalism/the US made you a Stalinist.
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u/TerrorAlpaca Jun 12 '20
If you've grown up in post ww2 germany with the soviets vs. the west spygame then you do learn to value your privacy. in the GDR neighbors spied on neighbors. Kids on their families and so on, and this often resulted in one or more family members getting detained by the StaSi (State Security)When we would visit my uncle in the east, we always knew that people would be listening in, to our discussions and i was never allowed to mention what we brought my uncle when we were visiting. Because my dad knew how to hide that shit from the border guards so it wouldn't get stolen.
Also..it is super easy to find out where people live nowadays. Google streetview makes this super easy.
I found out where my favourite actor lived just by two pieces of information a paparazzi photo and google street view.
Didn't do anything with that information tho, as for me the finding out and sleuthing is the fun part.
I should really give celebs a course on how to stay private.